First Editions

First Editions

There are 91 book(s).

Reaugh, Frank and Clyde Walton Hill

Prose Sketches to accompany the series of paint...

$200.00

This booklet gives commentary on seven paintings by Reaugh. The paintings: Driving the Herd, Watering the Herd, Bedding the Herd, Guarding the Herd, The Stampede in the Canyon, Milling Cattle, a...

Pendleton, Tom

The Iron Orchard

$125.00

The story of a young man desperate to make a name for himself and chooses to do so in the Texas oil fields. Pendleton knew the oil fields. This is a vibrant yet sometimes brutal story of men who...

Melland, Frank H. and Edward Cholmeley

Through the Heart of Africa, Being an Account o...

$150.00

A recounting of an epic bicycle trip. The trip was actually a safari and 60 porters carried the equipment. The bikes were used to avoid "foot-slogging". London: Constable & Company Ltd, 191...

McIntire, Jim

Early Days in Texas, A Trip to Hell and Heaven

$3,750.00

The author was, at times, a peace officer and, at other times, a fugitive. Born in Ohio, McIntire once worked for J.C. Loving. McIntire makes several claims in this book, including that he once ...

Lundy, Benjamin

The War in Texas

$2,500.00

The War in Texas; a Review of Facts and Circumstances, Showing that this Contest is the Result of a Long Premeditated Crusade Against the Government, Set on Foot by Slaveholders, Land Speculator...

Lewis, Willie Newbury

Between Sun and Sod

$1,250.00

In Ranching Catalog Part 3, Dorothy Sloan called the 1st issue “exceedingly rare”. In a note to entry 1330 of Rampaging Herd, Ramon Adams detailed the 1st issue points. One of the points was dif...

Kelton, Elmer

The Time It Never Rained

$350.00

Inspired by a long drought in the 1950s – at the time, the longest and most severe in living memory—that pressed West Texas ranchers and farmers to the outer limits of courage and endurance. In ...

Kelton, Elmer

The Man Who Rode Midnight

$150.00

Another Kelton novel in which he weaves a story that incorporates old-fashioned principals. In this novel, main character Wes Hendricks knows a man’s values cannot be measured in dollars and cen...

Kelton, Elmer

The Good Old Boys

$150.00

This book is set in West Texas in 1906. Times are changing. The main character, Hewey Calloway comes to realize the way of life he once knew is gone and the time for mature responsibility has ar...

Kelton, Elmer

The Day the Cowboys Quit

$150.00

Inspired by an actual strike in the 1880s when cowboys then working for the large ranches in Texas’ Canadian River region stopped working to protest employment conditions imposed by the big-mone...

Jones, J. Y.

One Man, One Rifle, One Land

$125.00

The story of one man’s successful quest to “take all the huntable species and subspecies with the same .30-06 rifle.” The hunting experiences cataloged in this book range from the high North Ame...

Jameson, W.C.

Lost Mines and Buried Treasures of the Big Bend

$45.00

Texas’ Big Bend is mysterious and very compelling. Much of the legacy of this fascinating country has to do with lost mines and buried treasures. The twenty-one tales in this book are spellbindi...

Hough, L[ysius]

Crime

$1,950.00

A very uncommon item published during what is described in the book as “our national farm depression” by “An Extensive Land Owner and Wheat Grower”. In the Preface, the author calls for curbs on, i...

Hunter, J.A.

Hunter’s Tracks

$25.00

Hunter moved from his native Scotland to British East Africa in 1908 where he spent 15 years as a professional hunter serving maharajahs, millionaires and visiting sportsmen. During his lifetime, h...

Hatley, Allen G

Reluctant Rebels, The Eleventh Texas Cavalry Re...

$45.00

The first regimental history of the Eleventh Texas Cavalry. Recruited in North Texas in the Summer of 1861 and mustered into Confederate service shortly thereafter. The Regiment fought briefly agai...