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The Texas Rangers. A Century Of Frontier Defense.

WALTER PRESCOTT WEBB

Other works by WALTER PRESCOTT WEBB

Publication: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1935, Boston

First edition. 8vo. Limited to 205 copies of which 200 are for sale, and signed and numbered by the author. This is copy 7. Pigskin and linen with a morocco title label, xiv [2], 583 [1] pp., gilt top edges. acknowledgments, preface, illustrated, plates, portraits, bibliography, index. Illustrated by Lonnie Rees and from photographs. Adams 150 145 says, "It is the most thorough and reliable work to date on the Texas Rangers, and contains much material on Texas outlaws."

This copy contains the bookplate on the front pastedown sheet of Dr. Howard Stout Neilson, a prominent member of the Darien, CT community, Fine, bright, tight copy housed in the original slipcase with a paper spine label and titles printed in black. This book is from the renowned personal collection of Dr. George D. Lacy.

Inventory Number: 54208
$2,000.00