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

Nueva York: Imprenta de "El Correo de Nueva York" 1874. [4],xx,430,[1]pp., plus four plates, of which three folding. Modern half calf and marbled boards, spine gilt lettered and tooled. Short closed tear at gutter margin of two folding plates; one plate slightly trimmed at fore-edge; two later blank labels affixed..... More

Stuttgart: 1848. xiv,178pp. Original printed wrappers. Spine ends chipped, lower corners of rear wrapper torn away. Book label at upper corner of front wrap; institutional ink stamp on title page. Preliminary gatherings partially unopened. Light wear at edges; light tanning and foxing. First edition of this lengthy tract that prints..... More

Houston: E.H. Cushing, Nov. 28, 1862. [2]pp. Newspaper broadsheet. Old folds, some chipping in margins. Light tanning. A Confederate dated issue of this scarce Texas newspaper, rich with Civil War content. It reports on apparent disarray in the in the North, with the removal of McClellan, which according to the..... More

San Antonio: [Published by the author], 1937. 52pp. Original blue printed covers, stapled with linen spine. Light wear and soiling to covers. Internally clean. Inscribed by the author on the title page. A scarce book of poems written and published by Mexican-American author Ruben Rendon Lozano, a San Antonio attorney..... 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

New York; Fort Worth: 1921-1923. Eight single page typed letters and documents. Previously folded. Light wear. This group of eight typed letters and documents a potential stock swindle as the Texas Petroleum Company claimed to absorb the Allied Petroleum Corporation at the end of 1922 and the beginning of 1923..... 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

Brenham, Tx. 1857. [101] leaves, manuscript on rectos only of lined legal-sized sheets. Bound with ribbon at head. Lower half of front cover sheet torn away, not affecting text; some loss to rear cover, slightly affecting docketing text. Light wear, occasional foxing and tanning. A fascinating antebellum Texas legal manuscript..... 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