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AN ABC BOOK FOR LITTLE AGGIES
by Marcy C. Barkemeyer. Illustrated by Melinda C. Mallory. Condition: Very good 1999 B&A Publishing (Hurst, Tx) hardcover (pictorial boards), first edition, first printing. If there was a DJ, there isn't one now. Small edgewear to corners and top & bottom spine. Interior clean & tight. Full-page color illustrations. Content: Too cute picture book for children of die-hard Aggies - and a hoot for grown-up Aggies. Done in a dictionary style: A is for Aggieland; E is for Elephant Walk; G is for "Gig'em," R is for Reveille, etc. How can you not love this? Unless, of course, you're from UT. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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ABC's FOR TEXANS AND OTHER FOLKS!
by David & Mary Janet Lewein. Brown & white drawings by Delia New & others. Condition: UNREAD c. 1997 Texas Pride Publications (Galveston) trade paperback - well, ok, it's really a pamphlet with staples - but it's sturdy. It appears to have been originally published in 1990. Content: The "Texas Alphabet" with drawings to accompany each letter and word, i.e., A is for Astrodome (with drawing of the dome) and for Armadillo, and Alamo, etc. It also has all the stanzas for Texas, Our Texas - our non-inspirational state song. [1 copy available]
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BELOW THE LINE
by J. R. Helton. Condition: NEW 1996 Agarita Press (Austin) Trade Paperback, first printing. Tiny tiny edgewear. Content: The story of the filming of Lonesome Dove in Texas. Eye-opening stuff here. Reviewer: "A behind-the-scenes look at film production. In film production, actors & producers are "above the line",everyone else is below it, and some grueling & miserable scenes are played out down there. In this book, Helton, a Scenic Painter recounts the unglamorous, sometimes hilarious, often repugnant life of set builders & painters. No aliases are used, nor punches pulled. Some careers may have been ended by the publication of this book, especially that of Mr. Helton who apparently never encountered anyone he considered to be competent on set besides himself. Still, it is a true account of the ugly world of the lying, cheating, stealing, sadistic, ignorant and egomaniaical bastards who tend to thrive in this insidious business. A glossary of terms would have been helpful for those who have never been on a film set. This book is a must read for everyone who thinks that "it would be a lot of fun to work on a movie;" for the majority of the crew, especially the painters, it is anything but fun, although, as "below the line" illustrates, it does provide a rich array of lurid anecdotes." [1 copy available]
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BIG BROTHER BLUES: The Editorial Cartoons of Ben Sargent
by, of course, Ben Sargent. B&W cartoons. Condition: NEW 1984 Texas Monthly Press Trade Paperback, first printing. Excellent condition. Content: The best of Ben Sargent's Austin American Statesman political cartoons targeting big Texas political targets to big national political targets. No politician was ever safe. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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BIRDS OF HOUSTON
by B. C. Robison. Wonderful color photos of the birds by John L. Tveten. Condition: UNREAD 1990 Rice University Press hardcover [8.4 x 4.8 x 0.5 (129 pages)] and DJ (in mylar jacket), assumed first edition. The size is perfect for a man's jacket pocket or a lady's purse. Wonderful color photos of the birds by Tveten. Content: No matter where you see birds in the city--in parks or woodlands, on power lines or in parking lots--they are the natural soul of the urban landscape. They enhance the city and the lives of those who watch them. Nature writer B. C. Robison and wildlife photographer John Tveten have teamed up to produce this field guide for birders who want to identify the birds most commonly seen in Houston. Fifty-five species are included, ranging from such well-known favorites as the mockingbird and cardinal to the more exotic yellow-crowned night heron. A full-color photograph for each bird appears alongside warm and often witty description. For quick reference, a summary of the primary field marks of the adult bird is also provided. This summary includes not only identifying features of the bird but also its habitats, the time of year it can be found, and its distinctive behavioral traits. Aimed at the beginning birder, the guide also gives tips on buying binoculars and on attracting birds to your yard. [1 copy available]
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CORNERS OF TEXAS: Publications of the Texas Folklore Society, Vol LII
edited by Francis Edward Abernethy. B&W photos illustrate. Condition: NEW 1993 Texas Folklore Society/University of North Texas Press hardcover & DJ (in mylar jacket). First edition. Content: The title was taken from J. Frank Dobie and Dick Holland, who tell about library corners that contain writings that are forever Texas, and Holland's essay, "A Corner Forever Texas: The Southwestern Writers Collection," is the leading essay in the volume. Part One is about the history of the Texas Folklore Society itself and its "sainted elders"--Dobie, John Lomax, Carl Hertzog. Part Two contains some of the Society's best papers over the past three years. [1 copy available]
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DAY TRIPS FROM HOUSTON: Getaways Less Than Two Hours Away
by Carol Barrington. Condition: NEW 1999 Globe Pequot 8th printing Trade Paperback. Small smudge on fore edges only flaw. 240 pages. Content: Even though it is a bit dated, the major sites, towns, festivals, etc. are still in operation. Discover many things to see two hours or less from Houston, including living-history demonstrations, a Santa Claus museum, a livestock auction, and plenty of beaches. Find more barbecue than you can shake a stick at. Note: Page 50 - Hempstead - be sure to eat at the Hempstead Inn. Best boardinghouse-style food anywhere! No, I don't live there or own the restaurant, but I sure recommend it! [1 copy available]
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FORESTS TREES OF TEXAS: How To Know Them (Bulletin 20)
by Texas Forest Service. B&W drawings & maps illustrate. Condition: Good only, 1971 Texas A&M Press Trade Paperback, 8th edition, 3rd printing. Heavily used with edgewear, tanning to white cover edges, hinge crease. Content: Discussion of all of the types of trees found in Texas. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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FRESH PAINT: The Houston School (The Museum of Fine ARts, Houston)
by Barbara Rose / Susie Kalil. Color and B&W photos illustrate. Condition: Pre-read 1985 Texas Monthly Press Trade Paperback, first printing. Spine crease and tiny edgewear. Interior pages are clean. Content: This book contains a history of painting in Houston and a discussion of present-day painting. Color and B&W examples illustrate. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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GREAT TEXAS CHRISTMAS LEGENDS
(An Official Texas Sesquicentennial Commerative book) (SIGNED COPY)
by Zeno Zeplin. B&W illustrations by Author. Condition: UNREAD 1985 Nel-Mar Publishing (Wimberly) Trade Paperback, first edition. Inscribed by Author on the title page in 1986. Although it is unread, 2-3 bottom page corners have a bit of shelfwear. Interior clean & tight. Cover shows a very very pale rubbing bottom front panel. Content: Stories include: The Elf's Cap (with notes); The Charge of the Elf's Brigade, Whee-Whoo the Whistle (with notes), Feathers and Bells, and The Great Christmas Turnabout. All great Texas tales. This book provides new dimensions to Christmas traditions far from snow and the big city lights. Christmas imagery seemed forever bound in the frozen north and old England. Zeno Zeplin created these enchanting additions that became an official Texas Sesquicentennial Commemorative book in 1986. This is an "Accelerated Reader" book (disk - Tales for Young Texans PPO3 Vol. 3). For ages 9 to 99. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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HERALDS OF SPRING IN TEXAS
by Roland H. Wauer. B&W drawings (by the Author?) illustrate. Condition: NEW 1999 Texas A&M Press hardcover & DJ (in mylar jacket), first edition. Content: Reviewer: "Wonderfully delightful book about spring in the Lone Star state. The 50 chapters discuss indicators of spring from a personal perspective by the author and numerous friends and colleagues, from naturalists to housewives, and from the Rio Grande Valley to the northern plains, including the first dueting of chachalacas in the Valley; greening mesquites; returning vultures in the Big Bend; night skies and black-hawks in the Davis Mts.; butterflies and violets in the pineywoods; mt.laurel, anemones, Texas bluebonnets, and golden-cheeked warblers in the Hill Country; to singing meadowlarks on the northern plains. This book is truly a fresh view of spring, and filled with neat stuff about nature in Texas. Well worth the read! [1 copy available]
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THE SHAPE OF TEXAS: Maps as Metaphors
by Richard V. Francaviglia. Color & B&W photos, maps, drawings. Condition: Very Good + 1995 Texas A&M Press hardcover & DJ (in mylar jacket), first edition, first printing. Very gently pre-read or handled book. Interior clean & tight but DJ does have small wrinkle bottom back edge. Content: As a northerner transplanted to Texas, Francaviglia has been struck by the overwhelming presence of the outline map of the state of Texas in advertising, company logos, road signs, and other manifestations. As he notes in his introduction, "if Texas were a tribe located in an exotic part of the world, anthropologists probably would have seriously studied their peculiar use of the map by now. But as of this writing, no one else has described the phenomenon in this book." This is not an understatement. If the reader doubts it when opening the book, he/she will not doubt it by the end. Francaviglia traces the rise of the use of the outline map in the 20th century and its supplanting of the Lone Star as the most common Texas icon. He catalogues the use of the outline map in ways which span the gamut from the mundane to the bizarre. He does not, however, treat this as a source of humor (though many things are very funny), but rather as something deeply revealing about Texas regional culture and character. [1 copy available]
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ROOSTERS, RHYMES, & RAILROAD TRACKS: A Second Sampling of Superstitions & Popular Beliefs in Texas
by George D. Hendricks. Condition: UNREAD 1980 SMU Press Trade Papaerback, no edition given. Small, pale spot front cover with light tanning to cover edges. Tiny edgewear. Interior clean & tight. Content: All the superstitions and crazy things we believe (or say we don't) in Texas divided into categories, i.e., Love & Marriage, Sports, Medicine, Weather, etc. Great resource book for writers. [1 copy available]
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TEXAN JAZZ
by Dave Oliphant. B&W era photos illustrate. Condition: NEW 1996 University of Texas Press Trade Paperback, first printing. Content: While Texas is not generally thought of with New Orleans, New York, Los Angeles, Kansas City, and Chicago as a hotbed of jazz, Oliphant shows how many who found fame in those spots got their start in the Lone Star State. Artists as diverse as Scott Joplin, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Jack Teagarden, and Ornette Coleman all started out in Texas. From its origins in Joplin's ragtime piano through Jefferson's country blues to Coleman's hard bop, Oliphant details the development of this most American of musical genres. Meticulously researched and footnoted, this book is not only a definitive history of Texas jazz but a fine overview of the style as a whole. Questions welcome [1 copy available]
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The TEXAS BLUEBONNET
by Jean Andrews. Color photos & drawings. Condition: NEW 1993 University of Texas Press hardcover (pictorial boards - no DJ issued), revised ediiton.. 64 pages. Content: Beautifully illustrated book containing all/any information you ever needed or wanted to know about the Texas State Flower, the Bluebonnet. End pages decorated with maps and photos of Bluebonnets. Did you know you could eat a Bluebonnet? Wild deer will; cows won't. Beautiful book & informative, too. [1 copy available]
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TEXAS CHRISTMAS AS CELEBRATED UNDER SIX FLAGS
by Elizabeth Dearing Morgan. B&W photos & drawings. Condition: NEW 1995 Eakin Press in beautiful downtown Austin (well, almost) hardcover (pictorial boards - no jacket issued), first edition, second printing. 67 pages. Content: Describes some of the different ways that Christmas has been celebrated by various groups in Texas from the early sixteenth century to the present. Texas history & holiday history for Texas kids. Great idea; neat book. [1 copy available]
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TEXAS PHOTO SAFARIS
by George O. Miller. Color & B&W photos illustrate. . Condition: Good + 1986 Texas Monthly Press Trade Paperback, first edition. Vertical crease front cover. 2 chapters have some notes & underlining. Content: Although dated in some areas, the essentials of the book are still valid -- from the rock art in Hueco Tanks State Park to the dinosaur tracks in Glen Rose. It's still a good book to have while traveling through Texas. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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TEXAS WHITEWATER
by Steve Daniel. B&W photos, maps, charts. Condition: NEW 1999 Texas A&M Press Trade Paperback, first edition. Tiny edgewear. Content: Who knew we had "whitewater?" Well, turns out we do. This book will tell you where and how much. Texas Whitewater is arranged according to river drainages: Trinity, Brazos, Colorado, Guadalupe-San Antonio-Nueces, and the Rio Grande. Each description includes a map and an overview of the location, gradient, drainage, and difficulty of the run. Daniel draws on his own and other whitewater enthusiasts' experiences to describe the runs. Many chapters conclude with "Lagniappe," a section detailing the best restaurant or tourist attraction to be found in the area. Eye-catching photographs highlight whitewater features and showcase some of the state's best boaters at play. Daniel also provides information on access and safety issues. He offers tips on obtaining information on water levels and stream flow data locations via the Internet. Also included is an updated legal summary on the navigability of state waterways, prepared by Texas Assistant Attorney General Joe Riddell. [2 copies available]
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THERE'S AN ARMADILLO IN MY CH ILLI
text & illustrations by Joe Waldon. Condition: Very good 1971 Joe Waldon/Waldon Enterprises spiral bound softcover. Pale diagonal crease upper back cover corner. Small "spot" back cover at spiral. Content: Absolutely hilarious tribute to Texas' favorite animal (actually the State Mammal - believe it or not). Questions welcome [1 copy available]
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UNDER THE LONE STAR FLAGSTICK: A Collection of Writings on Texas Golf and Golfers
edited by Melanie Hauser. Forewords by Dave Marr & Tom Kite. Condition: UNREAD, but not perfect, 1997 Simon & Schuster hardcover & DJ (in mylar jacket), first printing. Problem: Name on loose endpage. Content: Hauser has assembled and skillfully edited 52 articles, a few of which she wrote. The material includes profiles of some of the greatest players (Bolt, Couples, Crenshaw, Demaret, Hagen, Hogan, Kite, Nelson, Rawls, Trevino, Wadkins, Whitworth, and Zaharias) as well as others who also made significant contributions to competitive golf, notably Harvey Penick ("Golf's Coach of the Century" and bestselling author) and Dave Williams (whose University of Houston teams won numerous N.C.A.A. championships). Some of the finest sportswriters contributed to this collection, notably Mickey Herskowitz, Dan Jenkins, Jim Murray, Grantland Rice, and Dallas' own Blackie Sherrod. Because there is a such a rich variety of subjects, each reader will have her or his own favorites among them. [1 copy available]
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WILDFLOWERS OF TEXAS
by Geyata Ajilvsgi. Beautiful color photos by the author. Condition: Good+, 1991 Shearer Publishing (Fredericksburg) soft cover, third printing. No major problems, just pre-read. Content: The entries are color colded, i.e., yellow flowers, white flowers, etc. There's also a nice color-codes map of Texas vegetation zones. The photos are clear and bright. The book contains a glossary and an illustrated glossary. Just the book you need when stalking the "wild flowers" of Texas. 414 glossy pages. Questions welcome [1 copy available]
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WILDLIFE AND MAN IN TEXAS: Environmental Change and Conservation
by Robin W. Doughty. B&W photos & charts. Condition: UNREAD 1989 Texas A&M Press Trade Paperback, second printing. Light edgewear to cover corners. Content: Doughty uses letters, journals, and travel accounts to show the early attitudes toward the uses of indigenous birds and mammals of Texas. Surviving on nature's bounty and remorselessly exterminating her threats - wolves, cougars, and other wily critters - settlers exploited Texas' pristine fecundity. Some species benefited from disturbed environments - others were unable to adjust to human presence and disappeared. By the 1880s concern about the diminishing numbers of many preferred species led to enactment of game laws and other efforts to protect and manage wildlife. Today, Doughty argues, habitat change is the most pressing issue confronting conservationists. [1 copy available]
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