434. [WOMEN’S HISTORY]. Lot of 13 titles (mostly 8vo, original bindings, very fine to good), including:
BOYD, Mrs. Orsemus B. Cavalry Life in Tent and
Field. Lincoln & London: University of Nebraska
Press, 1982. Frontispiece portrait. Pictorial wrappers.
First
reprint edition with a new introduction by Darlis Miller.
Pingenot: One of the best books on the frontier military
as seen by an officer’s wife. The Boyds served at
posts throughout the Southwest borderlands, including two
tours at Fort Clark, Texas near the Mexican border. The
first edition is rare and the reprint is now
out-of-print.
BRUCE, Florence Guild. Lillie of Six-Shooter
Junction. San Antonio: Naylor Company, 1946. 3
photographic plates. Cloth in chipped d.j. Signed by
author.
First
edition, limited edition (#514 of an unspecified number
of copies).
Elizabeth McAnulty Owens. The Story of Her
Life. San Antonio: Naylor Company, 1936. Illustrations.
Wrappers. Second white pictorial wrappers over first
wrappers, "Merry Christmas 1972, Ellen, Jack, and Steve."
First edition.
In South Cheyenne Cañon with Pen and
Camera. Colorado Springs: Hull Brothers, [1893].
Photographic illustrations. 16mo pamphlet, original
pictorial wrappers. Very
fine.
First edition. Pingenot: A promo extolling the
wonders and beauties of South Cheyenne Canon located at the
North end of Cheyenne Mountain, five miles from Colorado
Springs. Contains a short poem by Helen H. Jackson.
ISCOE, Louise Kosches. Ima Hogg: First Lady of
Texas. Austin: Encino Press, 1976. Photographic
illustrations. Oblong 8vo, original cloth and boards,
pictorial printed paper label. Very
good.
First edition. Whaley 138. Pingenot: Published by
William Wittliff’s Encino Press for the Hogg
Foundation for Mental Health, this biographical sketch
traces the life and pursuits of the only daughter of James
Stephen Hogg, one of Texas most able and popular governors.
She is praised for giving unstintingly of her own wealth,
and persuading others to do likewise. Hers was a long and
full life. Especially interesting are the numerous charming
photographs that span her lifetime.
KILGORE, Dan. Two Sixshooters and a Sunbonnet:
The Story of Sally Skull. N.p.: Texas Folklore Society,
n.d. Illustrations. Printed wrappers. Presentation copies,
one to Charles Downing and one to Ben Pingenot, signed by
author.
First
edition. 2 copies.
MARKS, Paula Mitchell. Hands to the Spindle:
Texas Women and Home Textile Production, 1822-1880.
College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1996.
First
edition.
NOGGLE, Anne. For God, Country, and the Thrill
of It: Women Air Force Pilots in World War II. College
Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1990. Photographic
plates. 4to, cloth. Fine in d.j.
First
edition.
[PLUMMER, RACHEL]. LOFTON, Rachel, et al. The
Rachel Plummer Narrative: A Stirring Narrative of
Adventure, Hardship and Privation in the Early Days of
Texas.... N.p.: Privately printed, 1926. 3 photographic
portraits. Original green printed wrappers. Very fine.
Reprint.
Ayer 221n. Graff 3187. Howes P80. Plains &
Rockies IV:113. Streeter 1525n. Pingenot: Reprint
edition of the exceedingly rare 1844 printing of James W.
Parker’s Narrative of the Perilous Adventures...During
a Frontier Residence in Texas...in which the story of a
Comanche attack in 1836 on Fort Parker resulted in the
capture of his daughter, Rachel Plummer, and his niece,
Cynthia Ann Parker, who later was taken to wife by a chief
and thence became the mother of noted Comanche chief,
Quannah Parker. Until the discovery, a dozen years ago, of
the only known copy of the 1838 original edition, the 1844
version (which was an imperfect reprint lacking the first
chapter) was the only available account of this remarkable
Indian captivity.
SUMMERHAYES, Martha. Vanished Arizona:
Recollections of My Army Life. Philadelphia: J. B.
Lippincott Company, 1908. Frontispiece portrait,
illustrations. Original gilt pictorial cloth. Fine.
First
edition. Clark, Southwest Classics, pp. 272-284:
"What she wrote was the story of an army wife on the
Arizona frontier in the 1870’s, a story that is
peerless in the literature of that time and place." Graff
4028: "One of the most readable books about Arizona." Howes
S1132. Munk (Alliott), p. 210. Myres, Army Wives in the
Trans-Mississippi West, a Preliminary Bibliography, p.
13.
VERGES, Marianne. On Silver Wings: The Women
Airforce Service Pilots of World War II. New York:
Ballantine Books, [1991]. Photographic illustrations. Cloth
and boards in photographically illustrated d.j. Near
mint.
First edition. Foreword by Senator Barry Goldwater.
Pingenot: The story of the Women Airforce Service
Pilots, known as WASPs, in which over 25,000 women
volunteered but only 1,830 were accepted for the rigorous
Army Air Force flight training program. For two years,
1942-1944, these women pilots flew everything from Piper
Cubs to B-17 Flying Fortresses. Yet for all their bravery
and commitment, the WASPs had to battle red tape and
political pressure for years until 1977 when Congress
finally accorded them the benefits of military status.
VIELÉ, Teresa. "Following the Drum:" A
Glimpse of Frontier Life. New York: Rudd &
Carleton, 1858. 12mo, original embossed pebbled cloth, gilt
spine. Shelf slanted and hinge repaired, overall very
good.
First edition. Hanna, Yale Exhibit: "As a
bride she went with her soldier husband to Texas when the
Mexican War had not been long over and where the fierce
Comanche were plentiful." Howes V92. Myres, Following
the Drum, p. 14: "Vielé was the first woman to
publish an account of army life in the trans-Mississippi
West, and one of the few women who wrote about Texas."
Plains & Rockies IV:312a:1: "In this lively
account...Vielé describes her year’s stay at
Ringgold Barracks in Texas...an entertaining commentary on
life on the Texas frontier in the early 1850’s."
Raines, p. 209. Winegarten, p. 118: "Mrs. Vielé was
an army wife...who wrote about Brownsville, Brazos Island,
Galveston, and Rio Grande City."
WALLACE, Edward S. Destiny and Glory. New
York: Coward-McCann, [1957]. Illustrations. Cloth. Very
fine in pictorial d.j.
First edition. Pingenot:
The incredible story of a forgotten chapter in American
history—the reckless men and bold adventurers who made
hostile expeditions to the Caribbean, Central and South
America between the Mexican and Civil Wars. Includes a
chapter on Jane McManus Cazneau, a remarkable
nineteenth-century woman whose exploits would make many
20th-century feminists blush. Long out-of-print.
(13 vols.)
($225-450)