Folklore from The Wright Collection

Austin: Encino Press, 1972. Photos. Texas Folklore Soc. #XXXVI. 15 articles including the Diamond Bessie Murder Trial, Los Pastores, Black Easter, others. (D.j. spine faded). 1st. Edition. Fine/Very Good.

El Paso: Carl Hertzog, 1954. Tan paper covers with adobe brick design, 11 pp., illus. by Cisneros. Designed & printed by Hertzog. Lowman #89. A Christmas greeting using a story from On The Open Range sent by Berthas & Frank Dobie in 1954. Perhaps the finest of Dobie's Christmas greetings.. 1st.. Paper. Fine/None.

Austin: Encino Press, 1967. Stiff gray paper covers, 27 pp., photos, design by Wm. Wittliff. Printed for the Texas Folklore Soc. A review of the accomplishments of the Tx. Folklore Soc. . 1st.. Wrs.. Near Fine.

Dallas: SMU, 1965. Brown cloth, 198 pp., index. Facsimile reprint of Texas Folklore Society Pub. # IX, 1931. . Cloth. Fine.

Dallas: SMU, 1929. Vol. XIV, No.4- pp. 382-500. Samuel Geiser-Naturalists of the Frontier III Gustaf Wilhelm Belfrage; Mody Boatright-The Genius of Pecos Bill; Gamaliel Bradford-Mademoiselle de Lespinasse; & more. . 1st.. Paper. Very Good/No D.j. Issued.

El Paso: Carl Hertzog, 1954. Tan paper covers with adobe brick design, 11 pp., illus. by Cisneros. Design & printing by Hertzog. Lowman #89. A story from On The Open Range sent as the 1954 Christmas greeting by Bertha & Frank Dobie. Perhaps the finest of Dobie's Christmas greetings.. 1st.. Paper. Fine/None.

Austin: Steck-Vaughn, 1967. Stiff paper covers, 44 pp. Southwest Writers Series No. 12. Short biography of Texas' one Negro writer of importance for many years. Important Negro folklorist.. 1st.. Stiff Wrs.. Fine/None.

Austin: Texas Folklore Soc., 1950. D.j., 302 pp. Words, music, index. Name on title page. Musical arrangements by Willa Mae Kelly Koehn. Probably the best book on the subject. Tx. Folklore Soc. Vol. XXIII.. 1st.. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good.

Albuquerque: U. Of N. M. Press, 1950. Paper covers, 124 pp., subject index. Univ. of New Mexico Publications in Language & Literature, No. 3.. 1st.. Paper. Very Good/Near Fine.

El Paso: Carl Hertzog, 1954. Tan paper covers with adobe brick design, 11 pp., illus. by Cisneros. Designed & printed by Hertzog. Lowman #89. A Christmas greeting using a story from On The Open Range sent by Berthas & Frank Dobie in 1954. Perhaps the finest of Dobie's Christmas greetings.. 1st.. Paper. Fine/None.

Wimberley: Nel-Mar Enterprises, 1985. Stiff green paper covers, 86 pp. SIGNED. A Christmas story.. 1st.. Stiff Paper. Fine/No D.j. Issued.

Wimberley: Nel-Mar Enterprises, 1985. Stiff red paper covers, 121 pp., illus. Five Texas Christmas Legends--The Elf's Cap, The Charge of the Elf's Brigade, Whee-Who The Whistle, Feathers and Bells, and The Great Christmas Turnabout.. 1st.. Stiff Paper. Fine/No D.j. Issued.

Austin: Texas Monthly Press, 1983. Stiff green paper covers w/white lettering, 250 pp., some photos. Water witching, wild hog hunting, home remedies, Grandma's moral tales & other affairs of Plain Texas Living. Folktales, reminiscences, & oral history giving us a sense of old-time Texas.. 2nd Prtg.,. Stiff Wrs.. Very Good.

Dallas: SMU, 1945. Contains: Rister-When Camels Came to Texas; DeGolyer-Anthony F. Lucas and Spindletop; Barker- Pity the Poor President; Gipson-Hound Dog Men Are Born; and many other interesting articles.. 1st.. Stif Pict. Wrs.. Very Good.

Ft.Worth: TCU, 2004. 284 pp., index. INSCRIBED. Lee's landmark book brings together his strengths as a literary & cultural critic, a folklorist, and a humorist.. 1st.. Fine/Fine.

Lawton: Museum of the Great Plains, 1968. 258 pp., frontis., photo, illus., index. First trade edition. Only complete bibliography of Dobie's works. . 1st.. Fine/Near Fine.

Las Vegas, N.M.: Rodgers Library, 1959. Paper covers, 16 pp., Designed & printed by Carl Hertzog for Rodgers Library, New Mexico Highland University. Scarce Powell & Hertzog work. Introd. by William Wallace, Rodgers librarian & archivist. SIGNED by Powell. . 1st.. Wrs.. Fine/No D.j. Issued.

Austin: Texas Folklore Society, 1937. 348 pp., index. Collection of Stories about Texas by numerous well known Texas authors. Previous owner's name on front fly.. 1st.. Cloth. Very Good.

El Paso: Carl Hertzog, 1954. Tan paper covers with adobe brick design, 11 pp., illus. by Cisneros. Designed & printed by Hertzog. Lowman #89. A Christmas greeting using a story from On The Open Range sent by Berthas & Frank Dobie in 1954. Perhaps the finest of Dobie's Christmas greetings.. 1st.. Paper. Fine/None.

Austin: Texas Folklore Soc., 1943. 73 pp., drawings by Tom Lea. D.j. chipped edges, some soil, darkened spine, name inside front cover. Design & typo. by Hertzog. McCauley, a tenant farmers son, stabbed a man, kissed his mother goodbye & headed West. Reese-SIX SCORE #75-"One of the most forceful & expressive autobiographies of the range country. McCauley lived hard." Ltd.… Read more about this item