Stiff Col Edward (10 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Slight wear to boards. Slight spotting on top and fore edge text block. FFEP, rear end paper and inside boards slightly toned. With fold out map. Fold out map in excellent condition. Dust jacket has shelf wear to spine ends, edges and corners.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. Reprint. includes map/ ex-library with usual library features.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Ex-library book with pockets removed and usual ex-library features including blank FEP removed. Very good+ with slight shelf wear/ no dust jacket/ hardback/ 1968/ reprint. J and R-1/2304.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. D.j., 392 pp., foldout map, appendix. Basic Tx Bks #199(H)-one of the most controversial guide books written by a visitor to early Texas. However, in general, it is one of the best books on Texas issued during the Republic. First published in 1840. Excellent copy.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Facsimile reprint. Very Good Minus in like dust jacket. Top edge of textblock with rather heavy foxing (spotting). Book is otherwise in really nice shape. No marks. Binding is square and solid. Fold-out map is present and attached. Jacket has a couple of extremely short tears, plus some small, rubbed spots along top edge. 367 pages. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Ex-library book with usual markings. Meets the good condition guidelines. Has a minor tear. Has wear. Five star seller - Buy with confidence.

HARDCOVER. Condition: Used; Very Good. Used; Very Good. 42-C-03 Texian Press 1968 Hardcover. Previous owner's bookplate on front free end page. Text is clean and unmarked. Jacket has a 3 inch tear on front, some scuffing on spine and other light wear. It is in a mylar protective cover. Book Condition: Very Good Jacket Condition: Good . 1968. HARDCOVER.…

Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. D.j., 392 pp., foldout map, appendix. Basic Tx Bks #199(H)-one of the most controversial guide books written by a visitor to early Texas. However, in general, it is one of the best books on Texas issued during the Republic. First published in 1840. Excellent copy. …

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1968 First Thus Edition. Originally published in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1840. Introduction by Tony E. Duty. NF/VG+. Hardcover; small octavo; red cloth; gilt spine titles; with fold out map present in front; 367 pp.; slight edgwear to price-clipped dustjacket; some fading to jacket spine, else clean and tight. A near fine copy in a very good or better jacket. Protected in a Brodart cover. BTB #199.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Howes3=S-1005 _____Graff=3989 _____Raines=p.195 _____BTB=199a _____Clark=III.244 _____Streeter=1367 ._____._____"One of the most objective accounts of Texas affairs issued in the days of the Republic, written largely from personal knowledge." --Howes3 S-1005._____._____"Stiff's guide is most useful for the light it sheds on such Texas settlements as Houston, which he states consisted of 382 houses and a population of three thousand, of which only about forty were women._____ He deprecates the moral character of the citizens._____Stiff's viewpoint throughout the book is decidedly pro-Mexican." --BTB 199a._____._____"Here conventional accounts of the physical features of Texas and of its cities and towns are interspersed with gossipy comment on various named individuals and on life in Texas in general, making it quite an entertaining book." --Streeter/Texas 1367. _____._____Includes both woodcut plates._____._____HOWEVER, ONLY ONE PART OF ONE PANEL OF THE COLOR MAP REMAINS. _____._____Bound in ancient, if not original, full leather, well worn and shabby._____ The rear cover is hanging on by a cord. _____._____Old reinforcements added to the head and foot of the spine._____._____There is damage to the last two pages of text affecting the transcriptions of two legislative acts._____._____.…