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Austin, University of Texas , 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 154 pages. Many B&W, color photos by Kennerly. The last 30 years of the 20th century produced a compelling range of images: Vietnam and the student protests, Robert Kennedy's assassination and Richard Nixon's election, the trauma of Watergate and the recovery under Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter, the fragile beginnings of peace in the Middle East and the crumbling of the Soviet Union. David Hume Kennerly's astonishing photographs of these and many other events that shaped our times are among the images forever imprinted in our memories. Kennerly was always there with his camera - on the battlefield, at ringside, or behind closed doors in the Oval Office. This eyewitness collection presents over 250 of his most dramatic photographs, many published here for the first time. Augmented by Kennerly's first-hand recollections of the historic events he witnessed, the photographs range from an early Supremes concert through Jonestown, with vivid coverage of Vietnam and other wars, the final days of the Nixon presidency, the inside workings of the Ford Administration, and groundbreaking events in international diplomacy.

Hardcover. New York, Flammarion, 1st English, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 263 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Catalog of a traveling exhibition first held at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, subsequently held at various European museums. Translated from the French by Deke Dusinberre. Minor rubbing and fading to dust jacket, mostly to top edge. Slight bumping to corners. Unmarked. A clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Henry Altemus, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 251 pages, gray cloth stamped in red and black, b&w line illustrations. The second book in the series. Light shelf wear.

Hardcover. NY, Vertigo/DC Comics, reprint, 2009/2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Two hardcover volumes in bright dust jackets. Book One collects issues 1-12 and features a new introduction by Ennis. Book Two collects issues 13-26 with an introduction by original editor Stuart Moore. In this now-legendary graphic novel series that serves as the inspiration for the hit AMC television series, Jesse Custer was just a small-town preacher in Texas... until his congregation was flattened by powers beyond his control and the Preacher became imbued with abilities beyond anyone's understanding. The creative powerhouse team of Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon bring readers on a violent and riotous journey across the country in this award-winning Vertigo series that collects the first 26 issues which debuted in 1995. Clean, bright copies.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 328 pages. Orange top edge. Light edge wear to dust jacket; in brodart. Else a very clean, tight copy. Texas family as big and brash as their home state, the Renshaws are united by their fierce loyalty to one another and their ruthlessness in destroying anyone who threatens their interests. When the Renshaw matriarch, Edwina, takes to her deathbed, her ten children are summoned home to stand vigil. Past humiliations and long-simmering resentments soon boil to the surface--a son's forbidden love affair destroyed by his imperious mother, a daughter's dutiful attentions greeted with nothing but disdain. But the most painful wound of all is the absence of Kyle, Edwina's favorite son and the only member of the family to leave Texas. What drove him away, and can his siblings get him home in time to see his mother before she dies? As the ties that bind the indomitable Renshaws stretch and fray, Proud Flesh builds to a stunning climax of passion and violence. It is an unforgettable story, and one of William Humphrey's finest.

Hardcover. NY, Aperture, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 144 pages. Published on the one hundredth anniversary of the death of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll), Reflections in a Looking Glass presents Carroll's remarkable photography. Richly illustrated, this important book presents seldom-seen works-most of them formal portraits and staged scenes that combine Carroll's famous childlike sense of play with the Victorian propriety that characterized his age. Also included in Reflections are selected drawings by Lewis Carroll and by John Tenniel, who illustrated the original Alice books. The central text by Morton N. Cohen, the world's leading authority on Lewis Carroll, provides an in-depth account of Carroll's experimentations in the new medium of photography. His hobby opened the door to many of his "child friends" as well as to leading artistic and literary figures of the day, all of whom came to Carroll's studio to sit for their portraits. Excerpts from Carroll's diaries combine with Cohen's annotated captions to make this book an invaluable resource. The book also includes a Preface by Mark Haworth-Booth, curator of photographs at the Victoria and Albert Museum. The Afterword is by Roy Flukinger, curator of photographs at the Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin, the source collection for much of the material in this extraordinary book.

Softcover. Ft., Texas Christian University, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 435 pages. INSCRIBED BY BONAZZI on the title page. This authorized biography by Robert Bonazzi, is based on John Howard Griffin's Journals from 1950-1980. Griffin was blinded in the South Seas during WWII, but regained sight in 1957, after which he wrote the classic Black Like Me. Bonazzi follows Griffin year by year after 1961, when Griffin toured the globe as a lecturer on human rights.

Softcover. Austin, University of Texas, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 176 pages, B&W photos by Winningham. Text by Al Reinert. Commentary by Don Meredith. Paperback.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 297 pages. A biographical novel of Sam Houston. A powerful adventure story from the career of the famous Texan whose feats were often as gigantic as the state he wrenched away from Mexico.

Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's Press , 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, uclipped dust jacket. A moving and evocative look inside the world of rock and roll follows Laurie Moss as she leaves her native Texas in 1994 seeking stardom in California, where she struggles against the rampant sexism and cruelty of the music business.

Hardcover. Norman OK, University of Oklahoma Press, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, in a edgeworn dust jacket, 270 pages. Color frontis, 115 b&w plates. Considers the life and work of American artist (and soldier) Seth Eastman (1808-1875). Follows his dual career at the Military Academy, and in Florida, Minnesota, Texas, and Washington. Includes a chronology and a fairly well-detailed checklist of works - oils, water colors, drawings, and lithographs and engravings after Eastman. The authoritative work on this fascinating artist.

Softcover. NY, Little, Brown & Company, reprint, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 235 pages. Orphaned by a tragic accident at sixteen, Tommy Burwell's been scraping out a meager existence working dead-end jobs for years. When he and fellow nomad Four Trey Whitey get jobs working with dynamite, making way for a new pipeline across the deserted plains of Far West Texas, disaster ensues. In a matter of days, Tommy is brutally beaten and witness to an act of cold-blooded murder the law can't be bothered to investigate. When Carol, a knockout beauty, shows up looking to follow the caravan of workers, Tommy falls for her almost immediately. There aren't any jobs for women on the pipeline, but Carol knows a few things she could do for the workers to keep afloat -- an arrangement that Tommy can't bear for long. As Tommy's about to find out, when you're South of Heaven, you're far from grace - -and sometimes the only way out is down. Clean, unread copy.

Hardcover. College Station, Texas A&M University Press, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with a small tape repair, 805 pages. The Confrontation of Indians, Spanish, and French in the Southwest, 1540-1795. Spanning two and a half centuries, from the earliest contacts in the 1540s to the crumbling of Spanish power in the 1790s. Storms Brewed in Other Men's Worlds is a panoramic view of Indian peoples and Spanish and French intruders in the early Southwest. The primary focus is the world of the American Indian, ranging from the Caddos in the east to the Hopis in the west, and including the histories of the Pueblo, Apache, Navajo, Ute, and Wichita peoples. Within this region, from Texas to New Mexico, the Comanches played a key, formative role, and no less compelling is the story of the Hispanic frontier peoples who weathered the precarious, often arduous process of evolving coexistence with the Indians on the northern frontier of New Spain. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Berkeley CA, Thorp Springs Press, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with light rubbing, A novel about Texas prisons written by a Texas poet and publisher. INSCRIBED BY FOREMAN on the blank prelim page. Uncommon with a small printing. Clean copy.

Hardcover. San Diego, Gulliver Books, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Designed and illustrated (in color) by Paul Bacon. Nice, clean condition. Bright, unclipped dust jacket. Relates the experiences of the Texas woman who, along with her baby, survived the 1836 massacre at the Alamo.

Hardcover. College Station TX, Texas A&M University Press, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with dust jacket, 232 pages. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. A postcard craze gripped the nation from 1905 to 1920, as the rise of outdoor photography coincided with a wave of settlement and prosperity in Texas. "Taming the Land" presents, in a large, detailed format, photographic postcards from twenty-four counties in the booming Texas Panhandle. Each entry includes this historical context of the photo.

Hardcover. College Station TX, Texas A & M University Press, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 174 pages, b&w photos. The show traveled in West Texas, Kansas, Oklahoma and Eastern Colorado from 1920 to 1945. Clean copy in a bright dust jacket.

Softcover. NY, Little, Brown & Company, reprint, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 237 pages. Clean, unread copy. Originally published in paperback by Fawcett Gold Medal Books, February 1965. To everyone he's every played dice with, Mitch Corley seems like the luckiest guy around. But in truth, Corley's fast hands are the only gift fate's ever given him. He's never held down a steady job, and when it comes to women, his luck might just be the worst of all -- his girlfriend and partner-in-crime Red would double-cross him in a heartbeat if she knew just how short on cash they really were. And if Red ever finds out about the wife Corley neglected to mention, there's a good chance that Corley might not survive the night. At first, Mitch was sure Texas would be the perfect place for him and Red to run their game -- there are players in nearly every back room and side-street across the state and here, the pockets run just a little deeper. But Corley forgot about one thing: Texans don't forgive easily. And there's nothing they hate more than a cheater. Texas by the Tail is a high-spirited, sexy, and ingeniously plotted novel of the grifting life, by a writer who is a virtual encyclopedia of the con, the scam, and the double cross.

Hardcover. Lubbock TX, Texas Tech University Press, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 212 pages, 132 b&w photos by J. Marcus Weekley. Documents the dance hall culture across the state.

Hardcover. Austin, TX, Texas Monthly Press, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, A book devoted to the various forms of folk art that have developed in Texas. Includes over 200 illustrations, approximately half of which are in color. Also contains biographical notes on the various featured artists. Very good condition, some wear to the edges and spine of the dust jacket.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott, 2nd pr., 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 180 pages. Illustrated with 39 grayscale drawings by the author. Ranch life during a severe drought. Stated second printing, $2.50 flap price. Clean copy.

Hardcover. San Antonio TX, The Naylor Company, 1st, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A story of a family and their struggle to survive during a harsh drought in Atascosa County, Texas. Several small b&w drawings at chapter headings. Rear fly leaf with residue where envelope was removed. No other library ttraces. name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Fort Worth, Tex., Amon Carter Museum, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 215 pages. High quality production in this well-illustrated look at Charles M. Russell"s art-filled letters. Published by world renowned Amon Carter Museum of Art, Fort Worth, Texas. Includes reproduction of letter, with envelope, addressed to "Young Boy" tucked inside pocket on rear board. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap.

Softcover. College Station, Texas A & M University , 6th pr., 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Illustrations by Joan Walternmire. Seventeen figures and 8 tables. 255 pages, indexed.