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By: Alter, Judith M.
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Fort Worth, Texas, Texas Christian University Press: 1984
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 00961
ISBN: 0912646888
Condition: Fine
Dust jacket has very light amount of wear at the head of the spine and a few corners. Two teenagers come to terms with each other and their lives during post-Civil War tensions in East Texas. View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons: 1965
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 06921
Condition: Very Good
Orange cloth with black lettering and vignette. Several small, dark stains along the top edge. Does not affect pages. Jacket has a few corresponding, faded stains, some additional small stains at the bottom, and also some chipping to the top and bottom edge of the front panel (larger chip at bottom). Juvenile story of a cub pilot on a Mississippi stern-wheeler who joins the Texans' cause for independence from Mexico and winds up at the Alamo. 192 pages. View more info
By: Evey, Ethel L.
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Houston, Texas, Larksdale Press: 1982
Edition: 4th Printing
Inscription: SIGNED
Seller ID: 06462
ISBN: 0898961025
Condition: Very Good+
Light wear and rubbing, a clean copy. A young boy has to sail to Texas alone from New Orleans in 1837 after his father is arrested and taken off the ship. He arrives in time for the first anniversary of the Battle of San Jacinto. Based on a true story. Limited printing of 150 copies, of which this is number 95, for the Texas Sesquicentennial in 1986 (commemorative ribbon affixed to title page). Signed by the author. 201 pages. View more info
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Austin, Texas, Eakin Press: 1982
Edition: Second Printing
Seller ID: 02186
ISBN: 0890152993
Condition: Very Good
Bumping and shelf wear at tail of spine and corners. Jacket chipped and rubbed, with indentations on the rear panel. NOT an ex-lib copy. Scarce thus. From the Stories for Young American Series; 57 pages with bibliography. Cover and frontispiece photo of Jane Long. View more info
By: Kerr, Rita
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Austin, Texas, Eakin Press: 1990
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: SIGNED
Seller ID: 06826
ISBN: 089015791x
Condition: Very Good
The blank endpapers, both front and rear, are missing; they were either very neatly removed (unusual for both) or never were included (also unusual). The first page you see upon opening the book is the title page. The dust jacket is price-clipped and has a crease on the rear flap. Otherwise, a nice, clean, unmarked copy. Fictional children's story of Polish immigrants in Texas' first Polish settlement of Panna Maria, southeast of San Antonio. Inscribed by the author to the book's previous owner. View more info
By: Kerr, Rita
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Austin, Texas, Eakin Press: 1988
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 09939
ISBN: 0890156395
Condition: Near Fine
Trace of wear to book and jacket. Nice, clean copy. In 1981, a cat showed up at the Alamo and became a fixture at the historic Texas shrine. She even had kittens there the next year and became quite the celebrity. Rita Kerr recounts the true story and adventures of Ruby, a stray cat adopted by the patrol rangers at the Alamo as their mascot. Forty-nine pages with Bibliography and illustrations by the author. View more info
By: Kerr, Rita
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Austin, Texas, Eakin Press: 1984
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: SIGNED
Seller ID: 10471
ISBN: 0890154473
Condition: Very Good
Shelf wear and a small tear or chip at the foot of the spine. A bit of rubbing to the rear cover. Inscribed by the author to a previous owner of the book: "To William W___, Remember the Alamo and Texas, Rita Kerr, 1986." 64 pages with Epilogue and Bibliography. This book for a juvenile audience tells the story of Susanna Wilkinson Dickinson (1814-1883), wife of Alamo defender Almeron Dickinson, Who stayed at the Alamo with her husband and survived the battle with her 15-month-old daughter. She was the only adult Anglo-American to survive and provided many details of the battle over the years. View more info
By: Townsend, Tom
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Austin, Texas, Eakin Press: 1986
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: SIGNED
Seller ID: 04552
ISBN: 0890155798
Condition: Near Fine
Navy blue leatherette with barely a trace of wear. Jacket shows light wear at the head of the spine and along the front flap fold. Sequel to "Where the Pirates Are," signed by the author "To Jacob" on the front free endpaper (fly leaf). A volume in the Stories for Young Americans series. View more info
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Houston, Texas, Bright Sky Press: 2009
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 10419
ISBN: 1933979453
Condition: Fine
Biography for a juvenile audience. "A biography of the patient, cultured empresario who founded Texas. Because he accepted the responsibility of fulfilling his father's dream to establish an American colony in Spanish land, he became the Father of Texas." 64 pages with Author's Note, SOurces, and Index. Illustrated. Fine, clean copy. View more info
