Search Results: Titles starting with S from Out The Door

1954 First Edition. Regional history, photos, illustrations, elusive in dust jacket.

1980 Revised Edition. (Good+/Good+) Ex-library. Veteran Texas topographer traces routes of armies of Sam Houston and Santa Anna. 30 maps and a detailed map glossary which traces step by step the marches of the armies of Generals Sam Houston and Santa Anna. Map endpapers.

1959, Staple-bound, Side Stitch, recto 63 pp, orange/yellow paper covers. Edition stated as "About 200 copies" Condition: (Very Good) As noted on first page: "Colorado Miscellany: Assembled And Utilized Previously...Reproduced Again For The Sake Of Factual And Interesting History" Published: Black Forest Bookman

Extensive. 366 pp. Fold out maps, bibliography, more.

A man of action in the American frontier during the first half of the 19th century when continued life often depended on violent action.[As] frontier fighter and border entrepreneur; was one of the outstanding figures in the early development of the American Southwest." -from the dust jacket. 242 pp., frontis. by Cisneros, photos, index. Previous owner bookplate

1985, paperback, signed by Author, condition: (good+)

Edited with annotations and an index by Lorraine Jeter, 120pp. Gilt-stamped blue cloth, blue end-papers. Price not clipped With her husband, Elias R. Wightman, they founded the City of Matagorda in 1828 - 1829.

Revised Edition 1976,

1980 Very good to about fine in very good to about fine dust jacket. Red cloth hard cover with gilt lettering on the spine, original red and white dust jacket. Illustrated with line drawings, 128 pages.

ASE # R-21 / 1945 / One of the few ASE "Made Books": paperback original edition (PBO). Porter, a descendant of Daniel Boone, was born in Indian Creek, Texas, in 1894, educated in small Southern schools, grew up completely outside of literary centers, yet won Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1966. Previous owner name on cover, some underlining. Paperback, stapled on the short side. Printed across two columns to make reading under battlefield conditions easier.

ASE S-26 / 1945/ One of the few ASE "Made Books": paperback only edition (PBO), first and only edition available. Seven stories included here, three H. P. Lovecraft mentions in "Supernatural Horror in Literature", naming Algernon Blackwood as one of the four "modern masters" of horror, "one absolute and unquestioned master of weird atmosphere". "The Wendigo" inspired a character in the Cthulhu Mythos, and creature in August Derleth's "The Thing That Walked on the Wind". "The Willows" Lovecraft identified as perhaps the greatest weird tale in the English language. "A Psychical Invasion" presents a writer dependent on drugs to stimulate his muse: ghost of a murderess haunts the author's home taking control of his mind. Relates a popular 19th century biological theory that all organic matter (here a house) contains memory. Printed across two columns to make reading under battlefield conditions easier. Paperback, stapled on the short side.

ASE # O-28 / Almost Ninety years after his death, M. R. James continues to have a massive following as well as a thriving academic industry around his work. H. P. Lovecraft in "Supernatural Horror in Literature", names M. R. James as one of the four "modern masters" of horror. A paperback original (PBO), one of the few in the ASE series, published in paperback format without having been available previously as a hardcover. Paperback, stapled on the short side. Printed across two columns to make reading under battlefield conditions easier.

ASE # K-9 / A paperback only edition (POE) published in paperback format only; the 1944 edition is the only edition available. Very desirable Hemmingway item. / Printed across two columns to make reading under battlefield conditions easier. Paperback, stapled on the short side.

Signed by Author. undated, c1995. 48 pp recto. 8.5 x 10" between yellow paper covers; Condition: (Very Good)

1985. In January 1863 over two hundred Shoshoni men, women, and children died on the banks of the Bear River at the hands of volunteer soldiers from California. Bear River was one of the largest Indian massacres in the Trans-Mississippi West, yet the massacre has gone almost unnoticed as it occurred during a time when national attention was focused on the Civil War, and the deaths of the Shoshoni Indians in a remote corner of the West was of only passing interest.

Please see photos. Limited to 2527 copies. First edition / First printing. Unclipped dustjacket.

1978, Saddle Staple,Limited to 100, this copy #27, signed by author.

Sleep No More / August Derleth / ASE # R-33 Edited by August Derleth. Includes H. P. Lovecraft story. Designed to fit in a soldier's pocket, distributed to US servicemen during WWII. Printed across two columns to make reading under battlefield conditions easier. Paperback, stapled on the short side.

(see photo) 1988, First Edition, Condition: (Very Good+ in Good+ dust jacket). No writing.

Includes photos; not Ex-Library