Grimes Roy Editor (2 results)

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Minus. First Edition. Minor shelfwear. Front free endpage torn out by former owner. Embossed stamp on bottom corner of first page. Roy Grimes signed this book under his name on the title page. Edgewear and small tears and chips to top edge of DJ. Spine is sunfaded. Price clipped. History of the "cradle" of Texas, Victoria and Victoria County. Removable mylar cover protecting DJ. Tom Jones (illustrator). Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First edition. [16], 649pp. Illustrated throughout with photographs, portraits; drawings by Tom Jones. Bibliographical notes, index. Green cloth lettered in gilt on spine and front cover. A very fine and bright copy with pictorial dust jacket (jacket artwork by Tom Jones; slight jacket wear to spine ends, less so to corners, spine slightly faded). History of the "cradle" of Texas, Victoria and Victoria County, formed by the Republic of Texas in 1836 and named after Guadalupe Victoria, the first President of Mexico. The book is divided into seven sections: 1) the Cradle of Texas History, 1685-1820, 2) the Road to Independence, 1821-1842, 3) Adversity and Prosperity, 1842- 1860, 4) Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1875, 5) Hide and Horn, 1875-1890, 6) Looking Back, 7) the Twentieth Century. Jones, Tom (illustrator). Book.…