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Published by San Antonio, 1938
Seller: T A Swinford, Bookseller, Sun city west, AZ, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 1st Ed., 210 pp., plates, fabricoid, nicr. 6-Guns #1157 Herd #1149. A trye rarity and because of small circulation virtually unknown, material on King Fisher, Billy the Kid, range experiences, Indian fights, etc. Missed by ykes for his Billy the Kid list.
Published by Artes Gráficas, San Antonio, TX, 1938
First Edition
Hardcover. First edition. 8vo. 210pp. Brown cloth textured in a leather pattern, title embossed on spine and upper board. Illustrated. A fine copy. The book is broken up into four parts: "John James, Pioneer;" "Personal Recollections of Vinton Lee James;" "San Antonio;" and "Western Texas." The author was born in San Antonio in 1858, and shares a wealth of personal information of his early life in that city and its environs. His father, John James, was a highly regarded pioneer surveyor of Texas during the Republic and early statehood. A scarce item, with much primary source material on the development of Bexar County and the outlying Texas Hill Country. Adams Herd 1149. Adams Six-Guns 1157. .