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Author: Lea, Tom
Title: The King Ranch
Place Published: Boston
Publisher:Little Brown Company
Date Published: [1957]
Description:

2 vols. [10], 467; [12], [469]-838 pp. Illustrated with numerous plates, vignettes and maps (some color, printed with special inks) after drawings by Tom Lea, plus facsimiles of documents. 9x6¾, two-tone buckram, slipcase. Designed by Carl Hertzog and Tom Lea. First Trade Edition, First Printing.

First printing with p. 507 text beginning with "Alice." "This is the best account of the most famous ranch in the world. William Reese called it `perhaps the most exhaustive ranch history ever written.' Frank Goodwyn said that `in addition to being an encyclopedic compendium of information on the ranch, the book is also a work of art....' ...The research for the book was partly done by Holland McCombs and the sixty-six pages of footnotes were prepared by Frances L. Fugate" - Jenkins 121; Adams Herd 1318.

Slipcase worn on bottom and at corners; else volumes fine with near fine acetate covers.