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Hardcover. Cambridge MA, MIT Press, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, silver boards with white lettering on spine. In a worn dust jacket with chipping and fading. The 16 articles in this book were prepared for the Conference of Newtonian Studies, held at the University of Texas, 300 years after what Newton himself described as his best year (1665), when he returned to his hometown to escape the plague in Cambridge. Articles cover Newton's life and society, his scientific achievements, philosophical analyses of his scientific achievements, and Newton's influence. B&w illustrations. Mild soil to edges of front fly leaf, otherwise clean, no markings.

Hardcover. Texas A&M University Press;, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 276 pages. Tom Lea was a realist who painted things as they are, but just happened to see more of what they are than most of us do. A muralist, painter, book illustrator, World War II artist-correspondent, historian, novelist, and humanist, Lea died in 2001 after creating in some sixty years a corpus of work that has captivated those who know it. This volume makes available the full range of his vigorous work. Old admirers of Lea's talents will delight in this presentation, and a whole new generation will be awed by the unique contribution he has made. A Southwesterner from multicultural El Paso, Lea gave new vision to the misunderstood lands often thought of as barren wastes. As Kathleen G. Hjerter says in her foreword, in his paintings "the desert's melded colors are vibrant under many subtle gradations of light; the mesas and mountains reach up to a sky enormous enough to hold everyone's soul."But it is not just the southwest. its life and lore that Lea knew. Any subject he portrayed in picture or words (he wrote several outstanding books, including The Wonderful Country) he first researched minutely. Thus, he brought marvelous detail to his portrayal of the Mexican bullfighter, the Australian ranches and Texas cattle of the King empire, and the Indians, pioneers, and ranch hands of his own corner of the world. In the Second World War, as an artist-correspondent for Life magazine, he captured both the weaponry and the emotions of war. On assignment in China he developed a love for that land that gave him not only many subjects for paintings but also his favorite and, in later years, most characteristic medium: Chinese ink applied with a fine brush. This is a heavy and oversized book and will require extra shipping. International customers please ask for a shipping quote before purchasing.

Softcover. Norman OK, University of Oklahoma Press , reprint, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 167 pages. After nearly 200,000 African-American soldiers fought in the Civil War, Congress enacted legislation to authorize regiments of cavalry and infantry for service in the West. The Ninth and Tenth cavalries won fame as "buffalo soldiers" in the Indian wars, nearly overshadowing the critical support role of the Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth infantries. Now Arlen L. Fowler brings to light the story of African-American infantry service from 1869 to 1891 in Texas, Indian Territory, the Dakotas, Montana, and Arizona.

Hardcover. Houston, Rice University, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, embossed blue cloth covers, 143 pages. Comprised of 72 duotone images, explanatory text, and an afterword co-authored with Anne W. Tucker, this elegant book presents a view of an area of the United States often passed over; this is deep East Texas, where Keith Carter grew up. "Keith Carter's luminous, poetic photographs are moving documents of people and places where time seems to have stopped. They tell the story of hard lives lived with simple dignity outside the frantic movement and gaudy neon of the big city."--the publisher. No dust jacket, clean copy. This is a heavy and oversized book and will require extra shipping. International customers please ask for a shipping quote before purchasing.

Softcover. Ashland OR, Blackstone Publishing, reprint, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pictorial wraps. Someone is looking to wreck the nation's economy, and they're spending a lot of money to do it. With every lead going nowhere, Flynn's most dizzying logic is put to the test. The remarkable undercover agent and Boston detective Francis Xavier Flynn returns in this second installment of the darkly comedic series. Out on ''medical leave'' from the Boston police department, Flynn has actually been called up once again by his longtime friend and handler, N. N. Zero, to solve a most perplexing occurrence. Someone has been picking small towns throughout the United States and delivering packages of money -- $100,000 to be exact -- to every man, woman, and child in residence. As Flynn flies to Texas to start investigating the first incident, even more people begin to receive large manila envelopes full of ''cash money,'' including an entire department at the Pentagon.Now under pressure from the president, Flynn is up against the clock to crack this crisis before the US economy is propelled into total disarray.

Softcover. Ashland OR, Blackstone Publishing, reprint, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pictorial wraps. Someone is looking to wreck the nation's economy, and they're spending a lot of money to do it. With every lead going nowhere, Flynn's most dizzying logic is put to the test. The remarkable undercover agent and Boston detective Francis Xavier Flynn returns in this second installment of the darkly comedic series. Out on ''medical leave'' from the Boston police department, Flynn has actually been called up once again by his longtime friend and handler, N. N. Zero, to solve a most perplexing occurrence. Someone has been picking small towns throughout the United States and delivering packages of money -- $100,000 to be exact -- to every man, woman, and child in residence. As Flynn flies to Texas to start investigating the first incident, even more people begin to receive large manila envelopes full of ''cash money,'' including an entire department at the Pentagon.Now under pressure from the president, Flynn is up against the clock to crack this crisis before the US economy is propelled into total disarray.

Hardcover. Austin TX, University of Texas Press, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a worn and chipped dust jacket. Foreword by George Orwell. Introduction by Christopher Fyfe. 241 pages. Reprints two books by Irish novelist Joyce Cary (1888-1957), "The Case for African Freedom" (1941) and "Britain and West Africa" (1946), and three shorter magazine pieces. Illustrated in black and white, with three maps of Africa. Cary was English novelist who served in the Nigerian political service.

Softcover. Austin TX, University of Texas Press, 3rd Pr., 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 264 pages including appendices, bibliography and index. Profusely illustrated with b&w and color photographs. Superb images, portraits of individuals and family groups, and their arts, convey a quality of intimacy and serenity. Scenes of daily activity show many details of the way the Navajos life has been lived. Clean, bright copy. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt, Inc., 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 312 pages, b&w illustrations. This is the extraordinary story of Eli Wallach's many years dedicated to his acting craft which began in Brooklyn and grew in his college years in Texas. He has worked with many of the stars in movies and has been in many well-known movies, but he will always be remembered as a Western badman in the Spaghetti Westerns of the 60s and 70s. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, McGraw Hill, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The American Trails Series, edited by A.B. Guthrie, Jr. 383 pages, includes a two-page map. This book offers an account of the route between Siberia and Alaska that continues southward along the Rockies all the way to Mexico and beyond. Cushman details the stories of the many groups who have traversed parts of the route from prehistoric peoples to Native Americans, Spanish explorers, fur traders, cowboys, and whiskey runners of the Prohibition era. A clean and pristine copy of the first printing,

Softcover. NY, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, reprint, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 244 pages. Lou Ford is the deputy sheriff of a small town in Texas. The worst thing most people can say against him is that he's a little slow and a little boring. But, then, most people don't know about the sickness--the sickness that almost got Lou put away when he was younger. The sickness that is about to surface again.

Hardcover. NY, Ariel Books, 1st, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth covers stamped in black. A teenage boy's adventure on a cattle drive from Texas to Dodge City in the 1870s. B&w illustrations by Tom Leamon (Tom Lea? Looks like his work). Light shelf wear, no dust jacket, clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 1248 pages, illustations. The political home of Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, Horace Greeley, and the young Abraham Lincoln, the American Whig Party was involved at every level of American politics--local, state, and federal--in the years before the Civil War, and controlled the White House for eight of the twenty-twoyears that it existed. Now, in The Rise and Fall of the American Whig Party, Michael F. Holt gives us the only comprehensive history of the Whigs ever written--a monumental history covering in rich detail the American political landscape from the Age of Jackson to impending disunion.In Michael Holt's hands, the history of the Whig Party becomes a political history of the United States during the tumultuous Antebellum period. He offers a panoramic account of a time when a welter of parties (Whig, Democratic, Anti-Mason, Know Nothing, Free Soil, Republican) and manyextraordinary political statesmen (including Andrew Jackson, John C. Calhoun, William Seward, Daniel Webster, Martin Van Buren, and Henry Clay) struggled to control the national agenda as the U.S. inched towards secession. It was an era when Americans were passionately involved in politics, whenlocal concerns drove national policy, and when momentous political events rocked the country, including the Nullification Controversy, the Panic of 1837, the Annexation of Texas, the Compromise of 1850, and the Kansas-Nebraska Act. Holt captures all of this as he shows that, amid this contentiouspolitical activity, the Whig Party continuously strove to unite North and South, repeatedly trying to find a compromise position. Indeed, the Whig Party emerges as the nation's last great hope to prevent secession and civil war.

Softcover. NY, Little, Brown & Company, reprint, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 238 pages. Originally published in paperback by Signet Books, December 1961. Deputy sheriff Tom Lord knows by now that far-west Texas is the place he'll always call home. He's spent too much time in the region's small towns to adapt to another place. And that's all right with him. What's not all right is being a deputy sheriff, where if it weren't for family misfortune, he might have been a doctor instead. Lord's got one ace-in-the-hole -- the land deed that makes him the biggest landowner in the county, just as the oil companies have started to move in. When Tom's approached by Aaron McBride of Highlands Oil and Gas with a contract to set up pipelines on his property, he's more than happy to sign on the dotted line with barely more than a cursory glance at the paperwork -- it just might be Lord's way out of a life he never wanted in the first place. But when Lord finds out just what that contract entailed, things start to go sour for Aaron McBride -- and fast. Because in this Texas town, Lord's the law -- and there's nothing more dangerous than a cop with nothing left to lose. Clean, unread copy.

Hardcover. NY, Vintage Books, 2nd pr., 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 1167 pages, illus., bibliography, notes, index, Clean copy. In this third installment of Caro's epic biography he carries Johnson's story through one of its most remarkable periods: his twelve years, from 1949 to 1960, in the United States Senate. At the heart of the book is its unprecedented revelation of how legislative power works in America, how the Senate works, and how Johnson, in his ascent to the presidency, mastered the Senate as no political leader before him had ever done. It was during these years that all Johnson's experience--from his Texas Hill Country boyhood to his passionate representation in Congress of his hardscrabble constituents to his tireless construction of a political machine--came to fruition.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 3rd pr., 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 1167 pages, illus., bibliography, notes, index, Clean copy. In this third installment of Caro's epic biography he carries Johnson's story through one of its most remarkable periods: his twelve years, from 1949 to 1960, in the United States Senate. At the heart of the book is its unprecedented revelation of how legislative power works in America, how the Senate works, and how Johnson, in his ascent to the presidency, mastered the Senate as no political leader before him had ever done. It was during these years that all Johnson's experience--from his Texas Hill Country boyhood to his passionate representation in Congress of his hardscrabble constituents to his tireless construction of a political machine--came to fruition. Small scar to front fly leaf where sticker was removed, otherwise a clean copy.

Softcover. NY, Vintage Books, reprint, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 1167 pages, illus., bibliography, notes, index, Clean copy. In this third installment of Caro's epic biography he carries Johnson's story through one of its most remarkable periods: his twelve years, from 1949 to 1960, in the United States Senate. At the heart of the book is its unprecedented revelation of how legislative power works in America, how the Senate works, and how Johnson, in his ascent to the presidency, mastered the Senate as no political leader before him had ever done. It was during these years that all Johnson's experience--from his Texas Hill Country boyhood to his passionate representation in Congress of his hardscrabble constituents to his tireless construction of a political machine--came to fruition.

Softcover. NY, Vintage Books, reprint, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 882 pages, illus., maps, bibliography, notes, index, small crease to upper corner rear cover. This first volume of Caro's epic biography traces Johnson from his Texas boyhood through the years of the Depression to the triumph of his congressional debut in New Deal Washington, to his heartbreaking defeat in his first race for the U.S. Senate. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Austin, University of Texas Press, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 180 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w with a few color plates. Light shelf-wear, rubbing and soil to dust jacket. Internally very good.

Hardcover. Austin, TX, University of Texas Press, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 180 pages. Cream cloth cover with gilt lettering to spine, acetate-protected color-illustrated dust jacket, text and catalogue raisonne by Carol Clark, color frontispiece, 9 color plates, dozens of b&w plates. Very light wear to dust jacket; book in excellent condition.

Hardcover. Norman OK, University of Oklahoma Press, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 183 pages. The Western Frontier Library, Vol. 12. B&w illustrations. The timeframe extends from the Mexican War to the 1880's. Much on the Comanches in Texas, cattle raids and killings on both sides of the Rio Grande by both Mexican and American cowboys, the murder of a Pinkerton detective, the Lincoln County cattle war, and the pursuit of Billy the Kid. Clean copy.

Softcover. NY, Little, Brown & Company, reprint, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 241 pages. In trouble more often than not, guilty of assault, manslaughter, and honorably discharged from the military by the skin of his teeth, David "Bugs" McKenna can't seem to help doing the right thing at the wrong time--or the wrong thing, every chance he gets. But when he drifts his way into Ragtown, Texas, things seem to finally be turning around for Bugs. He gets his first job in years as the hotel detective of the landmark Hanlon Hotel. But now that Bugs owes deputy sheriff Lou Ford a favor, things are likely to get ugly, fast--and odds are, it'll have something to do with the bombshell wife of his Bugs' new employer. In WILD TOWN, Jim Thompson returns to the characters from THE KILLER INSIDE ME that made his reputation, in a virtuoso, multi-character portrait of how one man's life can take a turn for the worse. Clean, unread copy.

Hardcover. University of Texas Press, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, with a foreword by Howard S. Becker, red cloth; gilt titles; 166 pages.; b/w illustrations; some edgewear and spine sunning to price-clipped dust jacket, INSCRIBED BY SELBY on front fly leaf. clean copy.