Camp G.W.F. Wood, Texas: Oct. 18, 1857. [3]pp. On a bifolium. Previously folded. Bottom half of second leaf and upper corners torn away, with no loss of text. In this lively letter, William Beggs writes from Camp Wood to an enlisted friend at Fort Duncan, J.A. Richards, about the military..... More

Houston: E.H. Cushing, Nov. 26, 1862. [2]pp. Newspaper broadsheet. Old folds, some chipping at edges. Contemporary ownership inscription at top edge. Light tanning. A Confederate dated issue of this scarce Texas newspaper. It contains much news on developments in the Civil War, such as action from Tennessee and Indiana, in..... More

Austin: B.C. Jones, 1901. [2],v,105,[1]pp. plus color plate. Illustrated. 12mo. Original purple pictorial wrappers. Light wear and fading to spine and front cover, heavier to spine ends. Contemporary ink ownership inscription on title page. Light wear to text, lightly toned. Scarce first edition of this much-loved Texas history intended for..... More

New Orleans: Pelican Job Print, 1867. Broadside, 9.75 x 7.75 inches. Quarto on a folded folio sheet. Old fold lines. Minor soiling. Broadside circular advertising the services of James W. Price, "merchandise and produce broker" located at No. 34 Tchoupitoulas Street in New Orleans. The text reads: "I will give..... More

Amarillo, Tx. 1927. Six items, totaling [11]pp., plus three transmittal envelopes. Previously folded. A few short separations and light wear. Light tanning. A neat group of promotional material and letters from the Weepah-Tonopah Gold Mines Company, promulgated in the wake of a gold strike that triggered one of the last..... More

[N.p., but presumably northwestern Texas: 1922]. 55pp. Original brown wrappers, stapled. Lightly soiled, minor wear. Internally clean. An autobiographical account of the life of Martha A. Rogers, a frontier Texas wife and devout Methodist. A native of Mississippi, Grandma Rogers moved to Texas as a young girl, around 1850, and..... More

Houston: 1950. Map, 22 x 17 inches. Folded. Light wear and soiling. Map of the Louisiana and southern Texas oil fields along the Gulf of Mexico. Each county is outlined, with oil fields noted in green and gas fields noted in red. More

[Houston: 1912]. 149 original photographs, measuring 1.5 x 1.5 to 3.5 x 4.5 inches. Oblong octavo. Original leatherette album, photos mounted directly on thick black paper stock, most captioned in pencil on mounts. Light soiling and wear to covers. Blind embossed private library stamp at lower edge of first leaf..... More

Philadelphia: E.P. Knoll & Co., 1902. Partially-colored lithograph map, approximately 19.5 x 25.5 inches. Matted, previously folded. Minor wear along old folds. Scattered early pencil annotations. A few small patches of soiling and discoloration. A detailed and rare map of Harris County, Texas, published in 1902 in order to promote..... More

Waco: 1858. 40 manuscript leaves, on rectos only of legal-sized sheets. Ribbon tied, affixed with county seal. Light offsetting from seal on first leaf. Light wear and tanning; a few stray ink stains. A certified manuscript record of a civil case adjudicated in Waco, Texas in 1858 that was headed..... More

Galveston: Gustav Feist Co., 1906. [17] leaves. Original pictorial wrappers, chipped and separated along spine. Leaves evenly tanned, with an occasional fox mark. Rare photographic promotional for Galveston, Texas, published only a few years after the 1900 hurricane devastated the city. The work contains sixteen Albertypes of city views, concentrated..... More

Fort Worth: T.P. Martin, Jr. & Co., 1886. Vol. 1, No. 1. [4]pp. on a folded sheet. Light wear, a few small chips at edges. The first issue of this short-lived Texas periodical on stamps and stamp collecting, edited by B.G. Chaney. The feature article is titled “Advice of a...... More

Waco: 1944. 4pp., on a bifolium. Light, even tanning. Unrecorded promotional for a night of wrestling to take place at a theater in Waco during the summer of 1944. The main event was a "nothing barred, no time limit" return match between Nell Stewart and Rose Evans, both of whom..... More