Texana Miscellany

TEXAS FLAG BOOKPLATES (Sample available)
art by unknown artist. Condition: NEW package of 10 bookplates made by pacaritambo books. The peel-off label stock is heavier than most bookplate materials and is matte and not glossy. They are as perfect as possible, and we feel the subject matter is much different than you can get anywhere else. We can also personalize the bookplates if you like - just email us with the name. 3.5" wide x 2.5" high. Content: Texas Flag in red, white and blue with the Lone Star of Texas. Any questions or to request a sample, click here to email us.
$ 3.59 + $ 2.75 first class shipping.

COWBOY BOOTS BOOKPLATES (Sample available)
art by Geraktv. Condition: NEW package of 10 bookplates made by pacaritambo books. The peel-off label stock is heavier than most bookplate materials and is matte and not glossy. We can also personalize the bookplates if you like - email us the name you want on the bookplate. They are as perfect as possible, and we feel the subject matter is much different than you can get anywhere else. 2.5" H x 3.50" W. Content: Brown cowboy books with spurs highlight this "weathered" orange-brown background - you can also see a Stetson and a cow skull - all of which represent the American Old West. Any questions or for a sample, click here to email us.
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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]
$ 10.49 + $ 3.19 media shipping.

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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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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A HISTORY OF THE PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY OF TEXAS 1837 - 1987
compiled by Dorman Hayward Winfrey. Block prints by Gerry Doyle. Condition: UNREAD, but not perfect, 1987 Philosophical Society of Texas hardcover, no printing given. Problem: light tag removal mark top front corner corner. Interior perfect. Content: This book is simply what the title says - a history of the Society - with portraits of some of the founding members. [1 copy available]
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LONE STAR SWING: On the Trail of Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys
by Duncan McLean. B&W photos illustrate. Condition: UNREAD 1998 Norton Trade Paperback, first printing. Light tanning to page edges. Content: McLean has a dilemma. He's head over heels for a music that's not only going out of style, but is found most prevalently in Texas--a long way from his home in the Orkney Islands of Scotland. After exhausting Scotland's supply of western swing, in 1995 McLean travels to America, rents a Chevy Cavalier, and heads west to explore the birthplace, meet the makers, and dig up the roots of the sounds with which he's fallen in love. As he describes it: "This is the hottering chili-pot of New Orleans Jazz, old country fiddling, big-band swing, ragtime, blues, pop, mariachi and conjunto that dominated Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, and beyond--all the way to San Francisco in the west, Memphis in the east--from the mid-Thirties till mid-Elvis. This is western swing." Lone Star Swing is both musical pilgrimage and witty travelogue. As McLean trails his favorite music over the back roads of Texas, his adventures make for interesting reading. He has a way of making you feel you're riding along in the passenger seat as he finds the top 10 things to do in Turkey, Texas, on Bob Wills Day (Bob is McLean's western-swing hero), learns how to nibble an onion cooked up sunflower style at the Presidio Onion Festival, gets lectured for cussing in front of ladies after his Chevy gets its doors rehung by a hit-and-run driver, and suffers the wrath of Gulf Coast prawns eaten too far from their home waters. And although he's far away from the Orkney Islands, McLean has a way of making himself at home in just about every place the music takes him. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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O YE LEGENDARY TEXAS HORNED FROG!
by June Rayfield Welch. B&W photos, drawings and maps. Condition: NEW 1993 Yellow Rose Press trade paperback, no printing given. Content: Could an ordinary, red-blooded, fun-loving Eastland County horny toad survive three decades without food, water, light and air? O Ye Legendary Texas Horned Frog! probably will not settle the question, but you will be a better person for having considered this important issue. {I've never heard the frogs called "horny" before. Hmmm.] Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
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THE REGIONAL VOCABULARY OF TEXAS
by E. Bagby Atwood. B&W maps and charts illustrate. Condition: PLEASE READ / UNREAD, but not perfect, 1980 UT Press Trade Paperback, second printing. Problems: rubbings along front hinge with light edge wear. Interior clean & tight. Content: The vocabulary of Texas, and of the Southwest, has a character that sets it apart from all others. It is to some extent an amalgamation of words brought from other sections. A more important ingredient, however, has been a large group of words that initially grew into usage in Texas itself. Utilizing a thorough knowledge of language and a remarkable insight into linguistics, the author, Professor of English at the University of Texas, has compiled a reference book for scholars, writers, and laymen whose interests involve the use of this vocabulary. It is a well-balanced book, designed to present to the reader not only the actual vocabulary in use but also the area involved, topical surveys of words used, their backgrounds, and geographical aspects of their usage. Easterners and Westerners alike will relish the unique flavor of the Southwestern vocabulary. Questions welcome. [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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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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