Frantz Joe Mike Cox (7 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Hardcover book with dust jacket. Minor rubbing to edges of cover and dust jacket. Pages are clean. No writing found inside or out. Binding is tight, pages are secure. Our books are described as accurately as possible and come with our problem-free easy return policy. We like happy customers! Our items are always shipped within 2 business days.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Wear to the rear cover along the top edge and some dark pin-point spots on the top edge of the page block. The boards are very slightly bowed. The dust jacket has a horizontal crease mark and a few edge tears (tape repairs to the inside of the jacket) with creasing along the bottom edge of the front panel. Protected now in a Mylar sleeve. [xiii] 228 pages with Index, Bibliography, and Suggestions for Further Reading. Foreword by Gary Mauro. Beautifully designed by Jim Billingsley and printed on paper that has an effective life of at least 300 years. This book surveys seven major geographic areas of Texas that lured American and European explorers, colonists, and settlers. Illustrated with fine reproductions of 81 early county maps from the Texas General Land Office. Oversized, heavy book that will require extra postage for expedited domestic or international delivery.

Half-Leather. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Spine and corners are bumped, book is warped long ways. Dust jacket is sunned top half of front and some of back, it is shelf worn and has one 1 inch tear at top of spine. Clean and tight. Book is 17 1/2" x 11 1/2". I love all of the maps and don't care if this ever sells, Texas genealogists - you need this.; Elephant Folio - over 15" - 23" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. xiii, 228 pages : color maps ; 43 cm. ; black cloth-backed brick cloth with gilt lettering ; dj. INSCRIBED by Frantz at TSHA annual meeting 1990; inscribed by Cox at Austin Book and Paper Show 28 Sept 1991; both inscriptions to lifetime TSHA member Margaret Waring of Comanche, Texas. Reproductions and descriptions of early maps that lured explorers and colonists to Texas. Most are well sequestered in archives and unavailable to all but the most dedicated researchers. Historians Frantz and Cox have done an invaluable job in bringing these materials back into the public eye. (And finding a copy which is inscribed by BOTH authors, one of whom is long dead and the other now of advanced age, is akin to finding hens' teeth.). Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. book hardly used dust jacket has a tear at spine.

First edition. First edition. 17 1/2" x 11 1/2" two-tone cloth, titles stamped in gilt on the front cover and spine, xiii [blank], 228 [1] pp., acknowledgments, foreword, illustrated, maps, bibliography and suggestions for further reading, index. Contains 81 full-page county maps from the 1800's. Foreword by Garry Mauro. Inked gift inscription on the front free fly leaf : "To Carlos and Elvira Toman from Alan Sugg, whom I join in thanking for all they have accomplished for CCSU this past year and the years before -- we know -- we've watched him labor -- and succeed. Joe B. Frantz, Merry Christmas 1988. That's Carlos we're talking about -- no one but El Senador!" Printed on enamel coated stock designed to last 300 years. Many of the original county maps are rare and seldom, if ever, seen. A good look into the early Texas land records of 81 counties. Some light spotting to the top edge of the front cover and top edges of the cloth, else a very good internally clean copy in dust jacket.

FRANTZ, Joe B. and COX, Mike. Lure of the Land: Texas County Maps and the History of Settlement. College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 1988. 1st ed. Folio. xiv,299pp. Illus., maps. Orig. cloth, non-priceclipped d/j. Fine, as new. Cox, More Basic Texas Books, 36: only 2000 copies of this book were published and quickly went out of print. It is the only place color plates of original county land grant maps have been published. .