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A CATALOG OF THE JOHN H. JENKINS COLLECTION OF ORIGINAL LITERARY AND HISTORICAL MANUSCRIPT COMPOSITIONS I (CATALOG 35), John Jenkins, edition limited to 200 copies, softcover, illustrated (photos), 1970. ITEM CONDITION: near fine. The text block and illustrations are in fine condition with no tears, dog-ears, or marks. There is no bookplate nor signature of a prior owner. This is not a library book nor a remainder. The wraps are in very good condition (wrinkles along bumped spine, the end of one of the binding's staples is visible on the back wrap). 11 x 8 ½, pages not numbered but there are descriptions of items 672 items, so there must be between 150 and 200 pages, 21 ounces XX [From the title page] including compositions of Dumas, Rousseau, Wordsworth, Cocteau, Dos Passos, Sartre, Sully-Prudhomme, Maurois, Henry Clay, CS Forester, John Burroughs, WH Auden, George Sand, e.e. cummings, Wodehouse, Michener, Ogden Nash, Upton Sinclair, Arthur Symons, Masefield, Zola, Flaubert, Cotton Mather, Thackeray, and many others XX [From Wikipedia] John Holmes Jenkins III (born, 1940; died 1989) was an American historian, antiquarian bookseller, publisher, and poker player. Jenkins published his first book Recollections of Early Texas History the year he graduated from high school. He went on to become a well-known dealer in antiquarian books and documents, primarily of Texas history. Unlike many booksellers, he read much of what he bought and sold, resulting in his ten-volume Papers of the Texas Revolution. His Jenkins Publishing Company, including the Pemberton Press for trade publishing and the San Felipe Press for private publishing, produced more than 300 titles. Jenkins was elected a fellow of the Texas State Historical Association in 1967. In 1971, Jenkins was instrumental in helping the FBI recover an extremely valuable portfolio of original colored engravings, John James Audubon's Birds of America, stolen from Union College in Schenectady, New York. Jenkins's accounts of this experience, the purchase of the Eberstadt collection, and other lively reminiscences appear in his book Audubon and Other Capers, published in 1976. In 1980, Jenkins was elected president of the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America. In this capacity, he worked as principal organizer of a national system for identifying and publicizing the theft or loss of rare books and other valuable materials from libraries, booksellers, and private collections, and for seeing that the thieves are arrested and prosecuted. Jenkins was killed on April 16, 1989, by a shot to the back of his head, near Bastrop, Texas, while doing field research as part of his work on a biography of Edward Burleson, which was published posthumously. Although shot in the back of the head, the sheriff declared it a suicide, claiming [Jenkins] somehow disposed of the gun which was never found. Seller Inventory # 002454
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