First Edition of Sowell's Early Texas pioneers
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Author: Sowell, Andrew Jackson
Title: Early Settlers and Indian Fighters of Southwest Texas
Place Published: Austin, Texas
Publisher:Ben C. Jones & Co.
Date Published: 1900
Description: With 12 plates from photographs. (8vo) red cloth, gilt-lettered spine. First Edition.Scarce post-fire issue in red cloth. Retains the larger capitalized text on the title page, with copyright notice on the verso unlike the later issue. "The work contains 132 accounts of early pioneers, mostly as told by them directly to Sowell.... Most of the work relates to Indian fights and Texas Rangers. This material is fresh and for the most part not repeated in Brown, Wilbarger, or other works." -​Basic Texas Books #193. Howes S797. Bookplates and ink stamps on endpapers. Name index to the work compiled by Jim and Doris Menke, 1940 in stapled wrappers, laid in.
Author: Sowell, Andrew Jackson
Title: Early Settlers and Indian Fighters of Southwest Texas
Place Published: Austin, Texas
Publisher:Ben C. Jones & Co.
Date Published: 1900
Description: With 12 plates from photographs. (8vo) red cloth, gilt-lettered spine. First Edition.Scarce post-fire issue in red cloth. Retains the larger capitalized text on the title page, with copyright notice on the verso unlike the later issue. "The work contains 132 accounts of early pioneers, mostly as told by them directly to Sowell.... Most of the work relates to Indian fights and Texas Rangers. This material is fresh and for the most part not repeated in Brown, Wilbarger, or other works." -​Basic Texas Books #193. Howes S797. Bookplates and ink stamps on endpapers. Name index to the work compiled by Jim and Doris Menke, 1940 in stapled wrappers, laid in.
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Slight sunning to spine, minor rubbing to cloth; front hinge cracked, front blank torn and almost loose, faint marginal toning and foxing; very good.
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First Edition of Sowell's Early Texas pioneers
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