TEXAS from Franklin Gilliam :: Rare Books

Ingram, Kerr County, Texas:: [The Camp],.. Fifteen halftones; [16] pp. 8vo, stiff printed wrappers, front pictoria. No other copy located; OCLC has a 1947 brochure for this camp which is still in existence today.Herbert Crate opened Camp Rio Vista in 1921 between Ingram and Hunt on the Guadalupe in Kerr County. One of the camp counselors was… Read more about this item

S.l.:: s.n.,.. Not illustrated; [4] pp. 8vo, white stiff wrappers, front printed; one manuscript correction on p, [2]; 2-inch separation at foot of spine. OCLC lists one copy only (University of Texas at Austin)..The copy in Austin is assigned the date 1911—without explanation—as the Briscoe Center has the “John Avery Lomax Family Papers, 1842, 1853–1986” one must assume that… Read more about this item

[San Antonio, Texas:: The Compiler, Printed by the Press of the Clegg Company,.. Not illustrated; 56 + [i–iv] pp. Tall thin volume, stapled in the centerfold, 9 x 5 inches, brown very stiff card (simulated leather); title in gilt on front cover; some chipping at edges, corners, and spine. Three holdings in OCLC, all in Texas.Terrell says in… Read more about this item

Brownsville, Tex. : Brownsville Historical Association et al, 1959. . Large folio, printed gray wrappers; very slight sunning to spine. Excellent condition. A facsimile of the New Orleans publication, originally printed by E. P. Brandad. OCLC lists 7 holdings for the original edition.Cracker Barrell Chronicles p. 66.

S.l. : [The Organization, 1894-1903. . Tall narrow 8vo, pale green printed wrappers; marginal stain on fore- edge. Twelve holdings in Oclc--10 in Texas. Dedicated to Mrs. Lavinia Porter Talley, President of the Texas Chapter of the Daughters of the Confederacy.Dating is based on the date of the founding of the D.O.C. and Mr. Osterhout's death in 1903.

College Station, Texas: The University, 1888. . 8vo, self-wrappers. This little pamphlet outlines the "Plan of Organization of the Experimental Station.

Boston: Eastburn's Press, 1845. . 8vo, green printed front wrapper, back wrapper lacking. Signature of J. Kimball, Esq.on front wrapper. Held on January 29, 1845. New Englanders on the whole were opposed to admitting Texas as she would come in as a slave state, despite the fact that one of the provisions for allowing settlement in Texas was that… Read more about this item

Waco: The Society, 1935. . Vols. I and II only, Nos. 1-7 (lacking No. 5). 8vo, printed wrappers, No. 1 damp-stained). Maps and illustrations. The early issues of this magazine are quite scarce.

Austin: The Society, 1916-1925. . 3 volumes. 8vo, stiff wrappers, various colors; Vol. I with top outer corner mouse-gnawed, not affecting text and really only blunting the corner. Volume I is edited by Stith Thompson and Volumes II and IV by J. Frank Dobie.Covers African American, Hispanic and Native American folk lore and come into the 20th century… Read more about this item

Houston: Anson Jones Press, 1936. . Small 4to, buff paper-covered boards, some soiling and chipping Reprint of the 1838 New York edition, limited to 300 numbered copies