First Editions

First Editions

There are 108 book(s).

Viertel, Peter

White Hunter Black Heart

$35.00

A novel of big-game hunting in the Belgian Congo. The book is based on Veirtel’s experiences working with Director John Huson during the filming of The African Queen, an Academy Award winning mo...

Thompson, Cecilia

History of Marfa and Presidio County, Texas 153...

$375.00

Mike Cox included this 2-vol set in More Basic Texas Books, his book that built upon John Jenkins’ annotated bibliography, Basic Texas Books, It is one of cornerstone books about Texas’ Big Bend...

Rose, Victor M.

Ross’ Texas Brigade Being a Narrative of Events...

$2,500.00

The author, writing from Victoria Texas, represented himself to be “an actor in most of the events portrayed [in the book], and, in addition thereto, [wrote that he] had the fraternal cooperatio...

Rister, Carl Coke

Robert E. Lee in Texas

$100.00

From the dustjacket: [This book] “introduces a little known phase of the great General’s career—his service in Texas during the four turbulent years just preceding the Civil War—at Camp Cooper, ...

Rikhoff, Jim

Hunting the African Lion

$300.00

A great anthology of spellbinding stories. Stories from the best books about lion hunting throughout Africa have been collected. Also included are articles by noted hunters specifically commissi...

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 ...