Edinburg, Texas: Hidalgo and Starr Counties Abstract Co, [1918]. Octavo, blue stapled wrappers with black lettering, 97 pp, folding map. An abstract of title tracing the history and shifting ownership of a portion of the Llano Grande and La Blanca grants, located in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas. The.....
Corpus Christi, Texas: The Jack Bonner Press, [1935]. Octavo, stapled, pictorial wrappers, [16] pp, photographic illustrations. A promotional booklet for Corpus Christi, Texas. Undated, but mentions statistics for the year 1935. Yale and SMU in OCLC. A very good copy with real estate stamp to front wrappers, offsetting to covers.....
[Independence or Waco, Texas]: Ca 1880s to 1890s. Albumen photograph measuring 13.5 x 11", on larger board mount. A large group photograph of the Erisophian Literary Society, the second such society founded at Baylor University, which existed between 1853 and 1932. Literary societies at Baylor filled the role that Greek.....
Fort Worth, Texas: The Advance Company, 1927. Single leaf measuring 22 x 17", printed on both sides in black and red ink, photographic illustrations of oil wells and a map of oil lands. Circular promoting investment in Brown County, Texas oil lands, issued by the Advance Company of Fort Worth.....
Austin: State Highway Commission, 1937. Folding map, 26 x 31.25 inches, printed on both sides. Light wear and a few minor separations along folds. Light toning. Very good.
Austin, Texas: 1930. 10 x 7", folded leaf with [4] pp of text. A scarce amateur newspaper published by students at the University of Texas at Austin, billed as the "First Banquet Daily in the South." Very good with creasing, toning, bit of foxing.
Austin, Texas: The Anita Schutze Travel Service, 1940. Quarto, single leaf printed on both sides and folded accordion style, with one large page of text to recto and three panels of text to verso. Single issue of a newsletter "published twice yearly" by a woman-owned travel agency in Austin, Texas.....
Tyler, Texas: [1944]. Tall narrow octavo, stapled booklet, [6] pp, photographic illustrations. An informational booklet about the athletics department at Texas College, a private Hbcu in Tyler, Texas. The booklet focuses on the college football team, touting its recent successes, and printing lists of historical scores, standings, coaches, and All-Americans.....
Dublin, Texas: Press of the Dublin Progress, 1914. First Edition. 7 x 5.25", green marbled boards with gilt titles, brown cloth spine, [4], 65 pp, portrait frontispiece of the author, errata slip. A rare Texan frontier history, including accounts of Choctaw and Comanche raids. 26 in OCLC. Text block detached.....
Fort Worth, Texas: Calvin Littlejohn, [1959]. Two photos, each 10.5 x 8.5", signed "Littlejohn Studio" in the negative, and stamped the same on the backs. Two photographs taken by African American photographer Calvin Littlejohn, documenting Martin Luther King Jr's only visit to Fort Worth. One photo shows King's welcoming committee.....