Hertzog Catalogue, Part 2

Lots 701–800
ESPEJO, Antonio de. New Mexico. Otherwise, the Voyage of Anthony of Espeio.
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HOLMAN, David (compiler). Letters of Hard Times in Texas 1840-1890.

701. ESPEJO, Antonio de. New Mexico. Otherwise, the Voyage of Anthony of Espeio. ... Lancaster: Lancaster Press, 1928. 37 pp. Small square 8vo, original half parchment over dark grey boards. Short split to parchment, otherwise very fine. Bookplate of Carl Hertzog.
        Limited edition (200 copies signed by editor F. W. Hodge). Saunders 2498. Tate 529: "The most complete of all Spanish eyewitness descriptions of the Jumano." Wagner, Spanish Southwest 8bn.

702. EVANS, Joe M. Collecting Friends: My Hobby. [El Paso: Guynes Printing for the author, 1952]. [10] 150 pp., facsimiles. 12mo, original blue pictorial cloth. Signed by author.
        First edition.

703. EVANS, Joe M. (editor). A Corral Full of Stories. [El Paso: Privately printed, 1939]. x, 66 pp., illustrations. 8vo, original pictorial wrappers. Fine.
        First edition. Adams, Herd 774.

704. EVANS, Joe M. The Cow. [El Paso: Guynes Printing for the author, 1944]. 71 pp., illustrations. Small 8vo, original tan pictorial wrappers. Fine. Presentation copy to Carl Hertzog.
        First edition. Adams, Herd 775.

705. EVERETT, Donald E. San Antonio Legacy. San Antonio: Trinity University Press, [1979]. [10] 121 pp., illustrated by José Cisneros. 8vo, original green cloth gilt. Very fine in d.j. Presentation copy, inscribed to Vivian & Carl Hertzog, signed by Cisneros.
        First edition.

706. FALCONER, Thomas. Letters and Notes on the Texan Santa Fe Expedition 1841-1842. New York: Dauber & Pine Bookshops, 1930. 159 pp., frontispiece portrait. Tall 8vo, original half grey cloth over boards, printed paper labels on spine and upper cover. Covers age-toned on edges, otherwise fine.
        Limited edition (300 copies), first printing of this version, edited by Hodge, with extensive revisions and additions. Basic Texas Books 116n. Dobie, p. 56. Howes F14. Plains & Rockies IV:90n. Rader 1325. Rittenhouse 198: "Falconer was with the Texas-Santa Fe Expedition. An Englishman, he was soon released when his government exerted influence.... Most useful edition." Tate 2049: "Descriptions of the expedition's trouble with Comanches." See Streeter 1412 & 1496.

707. FARQUHAR, Francis P. Yosemite and the Big Trees: A Selective Bibliography. Berkeley & Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1948. xi [1] 104 pp. Large 8vo., Original maroon cloth over grey cloth. Very fine in slightly torn d.j.
        First edition.

708. FAULK, Odie B. Destiny Road: The Gila Trail and the Opening of the Southwest. New York: Oxford University Press, [1973]. [8] 232 pp., illustrations, maps. 8vo, original red cloth. Bookplate.
        First edition.

709. FEHRENBACH, T. R. Seven Keys to Texas. El Paso: Texas Western Press, 1983. ix [1] 140 pp. 8vo, original brown cloth over beige cloth. Very fine in d.j.
        First edition.

710. FERGUSON, Henry G. "The Mogollon District, New Mexico." N.p., [1921?]. 171-204 pp., maps, folding maps, charts. 8vo, black leatherette over printed black boards. With note in pencil: "USGS Bull 715-L 1921."
        Extract.

711. FERGUSSON, Erna. Murder & Mystery in New Mexico. Albuquerque: Armitage, [1948]. 192 [12] pp., photographs, illustrations, endpaper map. 8vo, original black cloth. Very fine in slightly torn d.j.
        First edition. Adams, Guns 710: "A well-written book with chapters on several of the New Mexico outlaws."

712. FERGUSSON, Erna. New Mexico: A Pageant of Three Peoples. New York: Knopf, 1951. xii [2] 408, vi [1] pp., frontispiece plate, photographic plates, maps. 8vo, original grey pictorial cloth. Front endpaper stained from newspaper clipping, otherwise fine in lightly chipped d.j.
        First edition. Adams, Herd 801.

713. FERGUSSON, Erna. Our Southwest. New York: Knopf, 1952. [13] 376, vi [2] pp., plates (maps, photographs), endpaper maps. 8vo, original red cloth. Very fine in near fine d.j.
        Fourth printing. Adams, Guns 711; Herd 802.

714. FERGUSSON, Harvey. The Conquest of Don Pedro. New York: Morrow, 1954. [6] 250 pp. 8vo, original beige cloth. Fine.
        First edition.

715. FERGUSSON, Harvey. Rio Grande. New York: Knopf, 1945. [2] x, 296, viii pp., photographic plates. 8vo, original blue cloth. Fine.
        Fifth printing.

716. FEUILLE, Frank. The Cotton Road. New York: Morrow, 1954. 320 pp., endpaper maps. 8vo, original sky-blue cloth over grey cloth. Very fine in d.j. Signed by author.
        First edition.

717. FIERMAN, Floyd S. The Staabs of Santa Fe: Pioneer Merchants in New Mexico Territory. [Las Cruces]: Rio Grande Historical Collections, 1983. 24 pp., illustrations. 4to, original cream pictorial wrappers. Fine.
        First edition.

718. FITZPATRICK, George (editor). Pictorial New Mexico. Santa Fe: Rydal, 1949. 191 pp., photographic illustrations (some color). Small folio, original tan cloth. Spine slightly soiled.
        First edition.

719. FLANAGAN, Sue. Trailing the Longhorns: A Century Later. Austin: Madrona Press, [1974]. xix [1] 209 pp., photographic illustrations, maps by José Cisneros. 4to, original brown cloth. Very fine in d.j.
        First trade edition.

720. [FORT BLISS]. METZ, Leon C. Fort Bliss: An Illustrated History. With photographs from the Collection of Millard G. McKinney. El Paso: Mangan Books, [1981]. 180 pp., illustrations, maps. 4to, original bright blue cloth over dark blue cloth. Very fine in d.j.
        First edition.

721. FOX, H. B. The 2000-Mile Turtle and Other Episodes from Editor Harold Smith's Private Journal. Austin: Madrona, [1975]. [6] 128 [2] pp., illustrations. 8vo, original blue cloth. Very fine in lightly soiled d.j.
        First edition.

722. [FRANK, Jeanie McCallum Hay]. I Can Tell It All Now. [El Paso: El Paso High School Print Shop, 1948]. [2] 118 pp., illustrations. 8vo, original terracotta cloth. Very fine. Inscribed by the daughter of the author and the art teacher in whose class the illustrations were made.
        First edition.

723. FRANKLIN, Colin. The Triple Crown: Kelmscott, Doves, and Ashendene. [Dallas: Ondine Press for Bridwell Library, 1977]. [4] 19 [1] pp. 8vo, original cream cloth. Very fine.
        First edition, limited edition (#22 of 145 copies). Address on the occasion of the donation of a vellum Doves Press Bible to the Bridwell Library.

724. FRARY, Michael & William A. Owens. Impressions of the Big Thicket. Austin & London: University of Texas Press, 1973. 112 pp., illustrations. Small folio, original green cloth. Very fine in d.j.
        First edition. Bluffer Series of Southwestern Art, no. 4.

725. FUERMANN, George. Reluctant Empire. Garden City: Doubleday, 1957. 284 pp., illustrations by E. M. Schiwetz. 8vo, original cream cloth. Very fine in d.j. Presentation copy to Carl Hertzog, signed by author.
        First edition. Dykes, Fifty Great Western Illustrators (Schiwetz) 19.

726. FULTON, Maurice Garland. History of the Lincoln County War. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, [1968]. [6] 433 pp., frontispiece portrait, photographs, endpaper maps. 8vo, original grey cloth. Very fine in d.j.
        First edition. Adams, Guns 786; One-Fifty 59: "The last word on the history of this turbulent section of the West."

727. FULTON, Maurice Garland & Paul Horgan (editors). New Mexico's Own Chronicle. Dallas: Banks Upshaw, [1937]. xxviii, 372 pp., plates, photographs, illustrations, facsimiles, maps. 8vo, original maroon cloth. Fine. Presentation copy to Carl Hertzog, signed by Fulton and Horgan.
        First edition. Adams, Guns 788; Herd 865.

Item 727
Item 727

728. FURMAN, Necah Stewart. Walter Prescott Webb: His Life and Impact. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, [1976]. xiv [2] 222 pp., photographs. 8vo, original goldenrod cloth. Very fine in d.j.
        First edition.

729. G. T. (monogram, possibly T. G.). [Untitled rural scene with white building and man in hat pulling a boat to shore]. Color print, 10 x 71/4 inches. Very fine.

730. GANSON, Eve. Desert Mavericks Caught and Branded. Santa Barbara: Wallace Hebberd, 1928. [10] 54 pp., illustrations. 8vo, original maroon cloth. Very good.
        First edition. Poetry.

Item 730
Item 730

731. GARD, Wayne. Fabulous Quarter Horse: Steel Dust. The True Account of the Most Celebrated Texas Stallion. New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1958. 64 pp., illustrations by Nick Eggenhofer. 4to, original terracotta cloth. Very fine in d.j.
        First edition. Adams, Guns 798.

732. GARD, Wayne. Frontier Justice. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1949. xi [1] 324 pp., plates, map. 8vo, original terracotta cloth. Fine in d.j.
        First edition. Adams, Guns 800; Herd 877.

733. GARNETT, Porter. The Green Knight: A Vision. San Francisco: Privately printed for The Bohemian Club, 1911. xxviii, 62 [1] pp., tipped-in photographic frontispiece, illustrations, printed music, folding diagram of the Club's grove theatre. 8vo, original parchment over cream boards. Uniform age toning, very good. Bookplate.
        First edition. Hertzog considered Porter Garnett his mentor in the printing trade.

734. GARRARD, Lewis H. Wah-to-Yah & the Taos Trail. Palo Alto: American West, 1968. [20] 289 pp., woodcut illustrations, endpaper maps. 8vo, original brown pictorial cloth. Very fine in d.j.
        Facsimile of the Grabhorn Press limited edition (1936). Howes G70n. Plains & Rockies IV:182n. Rittenhouse 236n: "One of the great classics not only on the Trail but of the entire Southwest."

735. GARRETT, Pat F. The Authentic Life of Billy the Kid. ...Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, [1954]. xxviii, 156 [2] pp., frontispiece, illustrations. 12mo, original grey boards. Very fine in d.j. Presentation copy, inscribed to Carl Hertzog and signed by Jeff Dykes.
        New edition, with an added introduction by Jeff Dykes. Adams, Guns 807n: "Although Garrett gave his name to the book, it is said to have been written by his friend Ash Upson, with whom he lived. Upson, a newspaper man who could write with a flourish, gave Garrett the best of the controversy and painted the young outlaw in dark colors; the more he built up the Kid as a super bad man, the more credit his friend Garrett received.... The author created many legends about the Kid which have lived to the present time." Adams, One-Fifty 61n.

736. GEHLBACH, Frederick R. Mountain Islands and Desert Seas: A Natural History of the U.S.-Mexican Borderlands. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, [1981]. xvi, 298 pp., photographic plates, maps. 8vo, original brown cloth. Very fine in d.j.
        First edition.

737. GEISER, Samuel Wood. Naturalists of the Frontier. Dallas: Southern Methodist University, 1948. 296 [1] pp., maps, illustrated endpapers. 8vo, original black cloth. Very good.
        Second edition, revised and enlarged. Designed by Merle Armitage. Basic Texas Books 74A: "Best edition, with considerable additional material.... Best introduction to the history of natural science in Texas."

738. GIBSON, A. M. The Life and Death of Colonel Albert Jennings Fountain. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, [1965]. xi [1] 301 [7] pp., photographic plates. 8vo, original navy cloth. Very fine in near fine d.j.
        First edition. Adams, Guns 826: "A well-written and long-needed book about one of the leading characters in New Mexico. It contains much on the lawlessness of that state."

739. GILCREASE, THOMAS, FOUNDATION. Exhibition of Paintings and Bronzes by Frederic Remington & Charles M. Russell [cover title]. Tulsa: Thomas Gilcrease Foundation, 1950. [37] pp., photographic illustrations. 8vo, original cream printed wrappers. Fine.
        First edition. Dykes, Fifty Great Western Illustrators (Remington) 43. McVicker B77. Yost & Renner, Russell, p. 46 (#67).

740. GILLETT, James B. Six Years with the Texas Rangers 1875-1881. New Haven: Yale University Press et al., 1925. xvi, 259 pp., photographic plates. 8vo, original navy blue cloth. Fine. Bookplate and ownership signature.
        Second edition, edited and with an introduction by M. M. Quaife (first edition published four years earlier). Adams, Guns 829n; One-Fifty 62n. Basic Texas Books 76A: "One of the finest personal memoirs of Texas Ranger service." Dobie, p. 59-60: "I regard Gillett as the strongest and straightest of all ranger narrators. He combined in his nature wild restlessness and loyal gentleness. He wrote in sunlight." Greene, Fifty Best Books on Texas 73. Howes G177n.

741. GIPSON, Fred. The Cow Killers. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1956. x, 130 [1] pp., illustrations by Bill Leftwich. 8vo, original orange cloth. Very fine in chipped d.j.
        First edition.

742. GOLDSMITH, Arthur. A Big Croaker and a Little Boy. Poughkeepsie: Golden Bib Press, 1964. [12] pp. 35/16 x 29/16 inches, original cream wrappers, paper label. Very fine.

743. GONZALEZ, Luis. San José de Gracia: Mexican Village in Transition. Austin & London: University of Texas Press, [1972]. xxviii, 362 pp., photographic double-page title, photographic plates. 8vo, original green cloth. Fine, d.j. moderately worn.
        First edition in English.

744. GOODWYN, Frank. The Black Bull. Garden City: Doubleday, 1958. 264 pp., illustrations. 8vo, original terracotta cloth. Very good in d.j.
        First edition.

GRABHORN PRESS

745. [GRABHORN PRESS]. CABEZA DE VACA, Alvar Nuñez. Relation. ...San Francisco: Grabhorn, 1929. [10] 122 [2] pp., decorations by Valenti Angelo. Small folio, original cream boards. Spine worn. Brown cloth slipcase.
        Limited edition (#134 of 300 copies). Basic Texas Books 24V. Grabhorn 124. The first edition (published at Zamora in 1542-see Wagner, Spanish Southwest 1) was the first book about Texas. Cabeza de Vaca was the first European to travel across the North American continent.

746. [GRABHORN PRESS]. CASTAÑEDA DE NÁJERA, Pedro de, et al. The Journey of Francisco Vazquez de Coronado, 1540-1542, Translated and Edited by George Parker Winship.... San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1933. xxvii [3] 134 [12] pp., illustrations. 4to, original tan cloth. Short split to front hinge, otherwise fine.
        Limited edition (550 copies). Basic Texas Books 28E: "Best account of Coronado's famous expedition in search of the seven cities of gold." Grabhorn 195. Howes W571. Coronado and his men were the first Europeans after Cabeza de Vaca to travel across Texas, and preceded all others into New Mexico, Arizona, and Colorado.

747. [GRABHORN PRESS]. CAVEAT BOOK SHOP. A Catalogue of Rare Books & Manuscripts.... San Francisco: [Grabhorn for] Caveat Book Shop, 1946. 15 [1] pp. 8vo.
        Photocopy. Catalogue no. 1 of the Caveat Book Shop. Magee & Magee, Grabhorn (1940-1956) 422n. Al Lowman comments that Carl Hertzog wore out several copy machines making copies of this catalogue for his friends.

748. [GRABHORN PRESS]. GREENHOOD, Clarence David. P G The Green Knight (1871-1951) In Memory of Porter Garnett.... [cover title]. [San Francisco: Grabhorn Press for] The Book Club of California, [1951]. 18 pp. 8vo, original printed wrappers. Fine. Approximately 800 copies printed.
        Grabhorn 508.

749. [GRABHORN PRESS]. HART, James D. A Tribute to Edwin Grabhorn. The Grabhorn Press. San Francisco: San Francisco Public Library, 1969. [6] 25 [1] pp., photographic plates. 12mo, original light blue cloth, paper label. Very fine, plain white d.j.
        Address delivered on the occasion of the opening of the exhibition "Fifty Years of the Grabhorn Press."

750. GRAHAM, J. B. Handset Reminiscences: Recollections of an Old-Time Printer and Journalist. Salt Lake City: Century, 1915. 307 pp., plates. 8vo, original black cloth. Very good.
        First edition.

751. GRAHAM, R. B. Cunninghame. Rodeo: A Collection of the Tales and Sketches of R. B. Cunninghame Graham. Garden City: Doubleday, Doran, 1936. [2] xx [2] 438 pp. 8vo, original black cloth. Spine faded, paper age-toned.
        First edition. Adams, Herd 914.

752. GRAVES, John. Blue & Some Other Dogs. Austin: Encino Press, 1981. [4] 29 [2] pp., frontispiece, photographs. Oblong 8vo, navy blue cloth over blue boards. Very fine in acetate d.j.
        First edition in book form. Whaley, Wittliff 159: "Tells the story of a love affair between the author and his crossbred sheep dog, whose special personality, loyalty, and courage made him an unforgettable companion."

753. ______. From a Limestone Ledge: Some Essays and other Ruminations about Country. New York: Knopf, 1980. [1] xv [1]228 [5] pp., frontispiece, illustrations. 8vo, original white cloth over white boards. Very fine in d.j.
        First edition.

754. GRAVES, John. Hard Scrabble: Observations on a Patch of Land. New York: Knopf, 1974. [1] xi [1] 267 [4] pp., map. 8vo, original yellow-orange cloth. Very fine in d.j.
        First edition.

755. GRAVES, John. The Last Running. Austin: Encino Press, 1974. [4] 47 [1] pp., illustrations by John Groth. Oblong 4to, original black cloth over burnt orange boards. Very fine.
        First edition in book form. Whaley, Wittliff 116.

756. GRAVES, John & Jim Bones. Texas Heartland: A Hill Country Year. College Station: [Design by William Wittliff for] Texas A&M University Press, [1973]. 40 [64] pp., color frontispiece and 82 color photographic plates. Folio, original brown cloth. Very fine in d.j.
        Whaley, Wittliff 134: "Jim Bones provides an exceptional photographic record of a year in the Texas Hill Country. Most of the pictures were taken while Bones was a resident at Paisano, a 254-acre ranch that belonged to J. Frank Dobie. John Graves's essay on the region tells the history of the land and those who lived on it." A most harmonious collaboration between writer, photographer, and designer.

757. GREEN, Ben K. The Color of Horses. The Scientific and Authoritative Identification of the Color of the Horse. [Flagstaff]: Northland, [1974]. vi [2] 127 pp., color illustrations by Darol Dickinson. Square 4to, original green cloth. Fine, two short tears to d.j.
        First edition. Wilson 24. The first definitive work on the identification and formation of horse color.

758. GREEN, Ben K. Horse Conformation. Greenville: privately published, 1969. 74 pp., illustrations. 12mo, original printed wrappers with illustration by Tom Lea. Very fine.
        Third printing. Not in Hinshaw & Lovelace.

759. GREEN, Ben K. Horse Conformation as to Soundness-Performance-Ability, and Hoss Trades of Yesteryear [cover title]. [Cumby]: Privately published, [1963]. [2] 141 pp., photographs, illustrations. 8vo, original black cloth. Very fine in d.j. Presentation copy to H. D. Garrett signed by Carl Hertzog.
        First edition. Collected edition of Green's articles on the structure and function of the horse, which he published serially in the issues of The Tally Book from 1960-62. Wilson 9.

760. GREEN, Ben K. The Village Horse Doctor: West of the Pecos. New York: Knopf, 1971. [9] 306 [4] pp., frontispiece, illustrations by Lorence Bjorklund. 8vo, original beige pictorial cloth. Very fine in d.j.
        First edition.

761. [GREEN, BEN K.]. WILSON, Robert A. (compiler). Ben K. Green: A Descriptive Bibliography of Writings By and About Him. Flagstaff: Northland, 1977. [8] xix [1] 151 [1] pp., illustrations. 8vo, original black cloth over grey cloth. Very fine in red publisher's slipcase. Presentation copy inscribed to Carl Hertzog by the author.
        First edition, limited edition (100 copies, signed). The limited edition includes a previously unpublished story by Green.

Item 761
Item 761

762. [GREEN, BEN K.]. WILSON, Robert A. (compiler). Ben K. Green: A Descriptive Bibliography of Writings By and About Him. Flagstaff: Northland, 1977. xix [1] 158 [1] pp., frontispiece portrait, photographs. 8vo, original grey cloth. Very fine in d.j. Presentation copy, inscribed to Carl Hertzog and signed by author.
        First trade edition.

763. GREENE, A. C. The Fifty Best Books on Texas. Dallas: Pressworks, 1981. [10] 90 [1] pp., illustrations. 8vo, original cream cloth over printed boards. Very fine.
        First edition, limited edition (226 copies), this being Copy "A"-one of the 26 copies not for sale. Designed and printed by David Holman at the Wind River Press.

764. GREENE, A. C. The Fifty Best Books on Texas. Dallas: Pressworks, 1982. [8] 90 [1] pp., illustrations. 8vo, original pictorial wrappers. Very fine.
        Wrappers issue.

765. GREENE, A. C. A Personal Country. New York: Knopf, 1969. [12] 328 [5] pp., illustrated by Ancel Nunn. 8vo, original beige pictorial cloth. Very fine in d.j.
        First edition. Greene, Fifty Best Books on Texas, p. 89: "This odyssey of West Texas is a classic.... If the list of best Texas books were reduced to but ten, [it] would still make the cut."

766. GREGG, Josiah. Diary & Letters of Josiah Gregg. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1941-1944. xvii [1] 413 [1] 1 xvii [1] 396 [2] pp., frontispiece portrait, plates, maps including two folding. 2 vols., 8vo, original cream cloth. Fine in lightly chipped dust wrappers.
        First edition.

767. GREY, Zane. The Mysterious Rider. New York & London: Harper & Brothers, [1921]. [8] 335 [1] pp., frontispiece, plates. 12mo, original green pictorial cloth. Hinges and spine secured with tape. Text clean and fresh.
        First edition.

768. GRINNELL, George Bird. Blackfoot Lodge Tales: The Story of a Prairie People. New York: Scribner's, 1892. xv [1] 310, 4 pp. 8vo, original maroon pictorial cloth. Light shelf wear, hinges a bit weak, contemporary book plate. Uncommon.
        First edition. A sympathetic and careful presentation of Blackfoot folklore, written by the Yale-trained anthropologist who accompanied Custer's expedition to the Black Hills (1874), the Ludlow reconnaissance through Yellowstone (1875), and the Harriman Alaska tour (1899).

769. GUNN, John M. Schat-chen: History Traditions and Narratives of the Queres Indians of Laguna and Acoma. [Albuquerque: Albright & Anderson, 1917]. 222 [1] pp., frontispiece, illustrations. 8vo, original green cloth. Very good.
        First edition. Rader 1713.

770. HABERLY, Loyd. Pursuit of the Horizon: A Life of George Catlin, Painter & Recorder of the American Indian. New York: Macmillan, 1948. xiii [3] 239 pp., frontispiece, plates. 8vo, original tan cloth. Age toned, otherwise fine in torn d.j.
        First edition.

771. HAINES, Francis. Appaloosa, the Spotted Horse in Art and History. Austin: University of Texas Press for the Amon Carter Museum, [1963]. xii, 103 pp., frontispiece, plates, illustrations. 4to, original brown cloth. Very fine in d.j.
        First edition.

772. HALEY, J. Evetts. The Alamo Mission Bell. Austin: Encino Press for the Nita Stewart Haley Memorial Library, Midland, 1974. 30 pp., illustrations by E. M. "Buck" Schiwetz. 8vo, original maroon cloth, red-brown cloth with paper label on upper cover. Very fine.
        First trade edition. Whaley, Wittliff 112: "Haley tells how five Midland men, with a burst of Texas pride and patriotism, decided to ransom the battered and much traveled Alamo bell from a Nashville antique dealer."

773. HALEY, J. Evetts. Betty and Her Books. N.p., n.d. [2] 4 pp., illustrations by Charles Russell and H. D. Bugbee. 4to, original beige pictorial wrappers. Very fine. Cover title and half title: Ranges of Grass and the Men on Horseback.
        Written by Haley as an introduction to a catalogue by Betty Smedley.

774. HALEY, J. Evetts. A Bit of Bragging About a Cow. [Amarillo: George Autry], 1948. [7] pp., H. D. Bugbee. 8vo, original cream printed wrappers. Very fine. Presentation copy to Carl Hertzog, signed by Haley. Scarce.
        First edition. Adams, Herd 959. Dykes, Fifty Great Western Illustrators (Bugbee) 78. Robinson, Haley 15: "A serio-comic reminder that the great American cattle industry was not founded upon subsidies from Washington nor on 'progressive' philosophies dreamed up by social planners. The self-reliant Longhhorn cow rustled for her own feed instead of bawling for a hand-out at a stock-lot gate."

775. HALEY, J. Evetts. Life on the Texas Range. Photographs by Erwin E. Smith. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1952. 112 pp., frontispiece portrait, photographs. Folio, original yellow cloth. Very fine in lightly rubbed slipcase.
        First edition. Adams, Herd 966. Reese, Six Score 55. Robinson, Haley 110: "Erwin Smith's early ambition and training to be a sculptor were overcome by the irresistible lure of cowboy life on the ranches and ranges of West Texas. Patience and devotion, melded with his artistic bent and technical brilliance, produced the most superb of all the fine photographers who drew into focus the transient panorama of the cow country. 'I don't mean,' wrote Tom Lea, 'that he made just the best photographs I ever saw on the subject. I mean the best pictures. That includes paintings, drawings, prints.'"

776. HALEY, J. Evetts. Robbing Banks Was My Business. The Story of J. Harvey Bailey, America's Most Successful Bank Robber. Canyon: Palo Duro Press, 1973. xvi, 210 pp., frontispiece, photographs, illustrations by Thesda Rhea. 12mo, original light blue cloth. Very fine in lightly torn d.j.
        First trade edition.

777. HALEY, J. Evetts. "Some Problems of Museum Board Relationships." Pp. 33-43 from The Panhandle Plains Historical Review XXIX, 1956. N.p., 1956. [11] pp. 8vo, original white printed wrappers. Fine. Scarce.
        Robinson, Haley, p. 73.

778. HALEY, J. Evetts. A Texan Looks at Lyndon: A Study in Illegitimate Power. Canyon: Palo Duro Press, [1964]. 256 pp. 16mo, original pictorial wrappers. Paper browned, very good.
        First edition, third issue with five line cover title in script. Robinson, Haley 170: "Without doubt, the most cussed and discussed book of the twentieth century. Fully documented and hard hitting, it is a scathing exposé of Lyndon Baines Johnson. The author states in the introduction: 'After almost forty years of research into the historic past of Texas, with a growing concern over America's future, I have undertaken this inquiry into Lyndon Johnson's ambitions, methods, and career.... It seems to me that another 'native son' should do no less in atonement for the shameful part Texas has played in foisting this devious and designing man upon the American public.'"

779. HALEY, J. Evetts. To the Cowboy Artists of America. [Canyon: Palo Duro Press], 1976. [2] 8 pp. 8vo, original beige pictorial wrappers.
        First edition.

780. HALEY, J. Evetts. The University of Texas and the Issue. [Clarendon: Clarendon Press, 1945]. 35 pp. 8vo, original printed wrappers.
        Second printing. Robinson, Haley 184. Haley's commentary on the President Rainey-Board of Regents controversy. As might be expected, Haley sides with the Regents.

781. HALEY, J. Evetts et al. The Eugene C. Barker Portrait. [Austin]: Southwestern Historical Quarterly, 1943. 27 pp., frontispiece. 8vo, original blue printed wrappers. Wrappers faded at edges, otherwise fine.
        Reprinted from the Southwestern Historical Quarterly. Robinson, Haley 11.

782. HALL, Claude V. The Early History of Floyd County. Canyon: Panhandle-Plains Historical Society, [1947]. 147 pp. 8vo, original tan pictorial wrappers.
        First edition. Adams, Herd 972. CBC 1722.

783. HALLENBECK, Cleve & Juanita H. Williams. Legends of the Spanish Southwest. Glendale: Arthur H. Clark, 1938. 342 pp., plates, folding map. 8vo, original blue cloth. Contemporary ownership signature, minor insect damage to cover.
        First edition. Clark & Brunet 112: "A contribution to the romantic myth of the missions and missionaries in the Southwest."

784. HAMMOND, George P. & Agapito Rey (editors). Narratives of the Coronado Expedition 1540-1542. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1940. xii, 413 pp., frontispiece. Small 4to, original red cloth. Fine.
        First edition. Basic Texas Books 28F. Laird, Hopi 1067: "The editors describe Tovar's first contact with the Hopi in the introduction and Castañeda's narrative is included here with its version of the same event."

785. HAMMOND, George P. & Agapito Rey (editors). New Mexico in 1602: Juan de Montoya's Relation of the Discovery of New Mexico. Albuquerque: Quivira Society, 1938. [2] 142 pp., photographic frontispiece, 11 photographic plates. 8vo, original white cloth over rose boards. Very fine.
        First edition, limited edition (550 copies). Saunders 2537. Wagner, Spanish Southwest 13. Includes Cabeza de Vaca, Oñate, and Espejo; early routes to New Mexico; Montoya's essay giving a brief description of the ideas and cosmology that prevailed in the 16th century; etc. Excellent source for details on the earliest European activities in New Mexico.

786. HARDIN, John Wesley. The Life of John Wesley Hardin ...as Written by Himself. Seguin: Smith & Moore, 1896. 144 pp., illustrations. 12mo, original grey printed wrappers. Paper browned as usual, otherwise fine.
        First edition, first issue, with the mislabeled portrait. Adams, Guns, 919; One-Fifty 66. Basic Texas Books 84: "One of the most ferocious of all Texas killers." Howes H188. C. L. Sonnichsen wrote that "Hardin was an unusual type killer, a handsome gentlemanly man who considered himself a pillar of society, always maintaining that he did not kill anyone who did not need killing."

787. HARDIN, John Wesley. The Life of John Wesley Hardin ...as Written by Himself. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, [1961]. xxi [1] 152 [1] pp., illustrations. 12mo, original grey boards. Very fine in d.j. Third edition, with a new introduction by Robert McCubbin.

788. HARDING, Bertita. Phantom Crown: The Story of Maximilian & Carlotta of Mexico. Mexico: Tolteca, 1960. 443 pp., frontispiece, plates. Small 8vo, sheep. Fine.
        Second edition.

789. HARRIS, Benjamin Butler. The Gila Trail: The Texas Argonauts and the California Gold Rush. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, [1960]. xv [1] 175 [1] pp., plates, maps. 8vo, original ecru cloth. Very fine in d.j.
        First edition. Kurutz, California Gold Rush 313: "Ranks as one of the most important (and rare) firsthand accounts describing the Southern Route." Harris traveled with one of the first Texas parties bound for the California gold fields, arriving on September 29, 1849.

790. HARRIS, Frank. My Reminiscences as a Cowboy. New York: Charles Boni Paper Books, 1930. 217 [3] pp., illustrations. 12mo, original pictorial wrappers. Head of spine chipped.
        First edition. Adams, Guns 933; Herd 998. Dykes, Western High Spots, p. 85 ("A Range Man's Library").

791. HENDERSON, Alice Corbin. Brothers of Light. The Penitentes of the Southwest. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1937. [4] 126 pp., frontispiece, illustrations by William Penhallow Henderson. 8vo, original light yellow-green cloth. Cover edges faded, d.j. chipped. Signed by the author
        First edition. Campbell, The Book Lover's Southwest, p. 121.


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792. HERGESHEIMER, Joseph. The Foolscap Rose. New York: Knopf, 1934. [14] 312 pp. 8vo, original light grey cloth. Spine soiled, d.j. repaired with tape.
        First edition.

793. HERRON, Jim. Fifty Years on the Owl Hoot Trail. ...Chicago: Sage Books, [1969]. xxiii [3] 355 pp., illustrations, endpaper maps. 8vo, original tan cloth. Very fine in d.j.
        First edition. Edited by Harry E. Chrisman.

794. HEWETT, Edgar L. Pajarito Plateau and Its Ancient People. N.p.: University of New Mexico Press, 1953. x [2] 174 pp., illustrations, maps (1 folding). 8vo, original terracotta cloth. One page with underlining.
        Second edition.

795. HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF NEW MEXICO. Catalogue of Books in English in the Library of the Society Relating to New Mexico and the Southwest January, 1910. Santa Fe: New Mexican Printing Company, 1910. 49 pp. 8vo, original brown printed wrappers. Water stained.
        First edition.

796. HOGAN, William Ransom. The Texas Republic: A Social and Economic History. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, [1946]. xii [1] 338 pp., plates. 8vo, original terracotta cloth. Fine in chipped d.j.
        First edition. Basic Texas Books 91: "Best social history of the Republic of Texas [and] analysis of the forces which blended together to give the Republic of Texas its peculiar national character and to create the image of Texan nature which persists to the present day."

797. HOLDEN, Curry. Hill of the Rooster. New York: Henry Holt, [1956]. 319 pp., endpaper maps. 8vo, original tan cloth over green cloth. Fine in lightly worn d.j.
        First edition.

798. HOLDEN, William Curry. A Ranching Saga: The Lives of William Electious Halsell and Ewing Halsell. Drawings by José Cisneros. San Antonio: Trinity University Press, [1976]. [12] 289 1 [8] 291-568 [1] pp., illustrations, illustrated endpapers. 2 vols., 8vo, original grey cloth, in publisher's slipcase. Spines sunned, otherwise fine.
        First edition.

799. HOLDEN, William Curry. Teresita. Owings Mills: Stemmer House, 1978. xviii, 232 pp., illustrations and endpaper maps by José Cisneros. 8vo, original terracotta cloth. Very fine in clipped d.j. Presentation copy, inscribed to Carl and Vivian Hertzog and signed by Holden and Cisneros.
        First edition.

Item 799
Item 799

800. HOLMAN, David (compiler). Letters of Hard Times in Texas 1840-1890. Austin: Roger Beacham [William R. Holman], 1974. 56 [1] pp., title vignette. 4to, original burgundy cloth over marbled boards. Presentation copy to Carl and Vivian Hertzog, signed by David Holman.
        First edition, limited edition (295 copies, one of 90 with marbled boards). Fine-press book containing an interesting series of letters from Texas, 1840-1890, based on a broad cross-section of disenchanted Texans and would-be Texans.

Item 800
Item 800
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