A GROUP OF SEVEN BOOKS CONCERNING TEXAS AND FRONTIER HISTORY, comprising Negro Frontiersman: The Western Memoirs of Henry O. Flipper, First Negro Graduate of West Point, edited by Theodore D. Harris, published by Texas Western College Press, El Paso, 1963, printed by Carl Hertzog; 9 1/2'' x 6 1/2''; Ode to Nita, by J. Evetts Haley, Canyon, Texas, 1958, printed by Carl Hertzog, from the edition of 125, with an inscription by the author and enclosed Christmas card; 9 3/4'' x 6 1/2''; Pioneer Surveyor Frontier Lawyer, The Personal Narrative of O.W. Williams, edited by S.D. Myres, Texas Western College Press, El Paso, 1966, printed by Carl Hertzog, with slipcase, from the Fort Stockton Edition 150, colophon with signatures of the editor, the introduction writer, the artist, the researcher and the printer; 9 3/4'' x 6 3/4''; Memoir of Col. Ellis P. Bean, Written by Himself, About the Year 1816, edited by W.B. Yoakum, published by the Book Club of Texas, 1930, printed by the Rein Company, Houston, numbered 116 from the edition of 200; 8'' x 5''; Letters from the Pacific, by William H. Chickering, San Francisco, 1946, printed by Carl Hertzog, El Paso, numbered 79 from the edition of 300; 9 1/4'' x 6''; Josiah B. Vrooman (Vroman) His Ancestors and Descendants, by Lora Vrooman Randall and Florence Vrooman Houghton, printed by Carl Hertzog, El Paso, 1946, signed by the printer, from the edition of 500; 9 1/2'' x 6 1/2''; and Printer at the Pass: the Work of Carl Hertzog, compiled by Al Lowman, published by The University of Texas Institute of Texan Cultures, San Antonio, 1972; 9 1/4'' x 6 1/4''. (7)

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