John Duval First Texas Man by Dobie Frank (39 results)

hardcover. Condition: Good. exlibrary hardcover book, with jacket ,some light reader wear . Library stamps and stickers are present .

Condition: New. Lea, Tom (illustrator).

Condition: New. Lea, Tom (illustrator). SUPER FAST SHIPPING.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Second Edition. Second edition. Hard cover and dust jacket published by SMU Press in 1965. Brown covers with gilt lettering on spine. Corners of covers are slightly bumped and have some rubbing. Front endpaper has a bookplate from a prior owner with the name blacked out. Book is in very good condition. Dust jacket has some wear and small nicks along top edges, some scuffing and an ink mark on back. DJ is price-clipped and is in good condition. Large 8vo, 105 pages, .8 lb.; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 105 pages.

Condition: New. Lea, Tom (illustrator).

Hardback or Cased Book. Condition: New. Lea, Tom (illustrator). John C. Duval: First Texas Man Of Letters, His Life And Some Of His Unpublished Writings 0.48. Book.

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Second edition. 105pp. Sketches by Tom Lea. A spot on the foredge else near fine in a good only dustwrapper with short tears and staining.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Includes dust jacket. First Edition. dj in mylar sleeve, shows moderate wear, tear, chipping, tanning. pages tanned and clean.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine condition. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine dust jacket. Lea, Tom (drawings & jacket art) (illustrator). Second Edition. Dallas, Texas: Southern Methodist University Press, 1965. Fine condition in a Near Fine dust jacket. NOT price clipped ($5.00). NO chips. NO tears. NO fading. Sharp corners. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a library discard. Pages are crisp, clean and unmarked. 1965. Second Edition. With dust jacket art and nine illustrations by Tom Lea. Bound in the original brown cloth, stamped in bright gold on the spine. Complete with dust jacket. See: Dykes Lea #131, Dykes HighSpot p.172, McVicker #A8a(1), Cook #28. Second Edition. Hardcover. Fine condition/Near Fine dust jacket. Illus. by Lea, Tom (drawings & jacket art). 8vo. 105pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Re-Issue. FINE/good. Brown cloth boards. Complete jacket but closed break along front fore-edge. in Broadart. [B25].

Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Tom Lea (illustrator). Second Edition. Hard cover, 8vo, in brown cloth with titles in gold to the spine, lacking dust jacket, with frontispiece illustration, red and black title page, 105 pp., Second Edition. First published in 1939, this volume contains eleven previously unpublished short stories, essays and poems of Duval, a biographical sketch and bibliography. **Kentucky-born writer John Crittenden Duval (1816- 1897) was famous for pioneering adventure stories about Big-foot Wallace, Texas Ranger, based upon a real man the author served with around 1845 in the Mexican-American War. "The Adventures of Bigfoot Wallace, the Texas Ranger and Hunter" was published in book form in 1870. His reminiscences of the Goliad Massacre, contained in the classic "Early Times in Texas" was serialized in Burke's Weekly at Macon, Georgia, beginning in 1867, later going into multiple printings in book form in the 1890's. CONDITION: Fine.

Hard Back. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Lea, Tom (illustrator). very good copy of the 1939 edition. clean tight boards. pages clean and unmarked. dust jacket has some small tears and chips at edges. 105 pages.

hardback. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Second Edition. Price clip[ped jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. With sketches by Tom Lea. Two-toned cloth with light age-soil and minor edgewear. Spine square. Binding sound. No jacket, if issued. Gift note rubber-stamped to front paste down, and prior seller's sticker adhered at FFEP. Interior else clean, text unmarked.

Hardcover. Condition: F. Dust Jacket Condition: VG. Lea, Tom (illustrator). 105, [1] pages : frontispiece, illustrations ; 24 cm ; dj in mylar. "This edition is limited to one thousand copies of which nine hundred and fifty are for sale." Unnumbered, not signed. McVicker A8 a(1).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. With two-tone sketches by Tom Lea (illustrator). 1st Edition. Most of the dust jacket is present (showing original price of $1.50 to front flap), but the jacket is missing its spine, reducing jacket grade to "fair." Datelined Austin, Texas 1944, inscribed to James and Myrtle Markham (possibly 1913-1983, of Kingsport, Sullivan County, Tennessee) and signed "J. Frank Dobie" in his usual style in blue fountain pen to the blank FFE. Subject John Crittenden Duval (1816-1897), last of the 28 survivors of the Goliad Massacre, wrote "Adventures of Big-Foot Wallace, Texas Ranger and Hunter" (1870) and "Early Times in Texas" (initially for Burke's Weekly in 1867, finally published in book form in 1892.) This Texas biography now reduced from $300. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Tom Lea (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition limited to 1000 copies, 8vo, 105pp. Publisher's 1/4 brown cloth over beige coth boards. Very good with some wear to cloth at head and heel and some soiling and toning to edges of boards.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Signed by J. Frank Dobie on half-title page. First edition, published by Southwest Review, 1939. Hardcover in jacket. Jacket price clipped with several tears to jacket edge and a chip to the lower spine end. Book is clean and unmarked. Binding strong. Bump to lower points. Light wear. Presents well in fresh Mylar. Very good condition. Photos available upon request. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Illustrated by Tom Lea (illustrator). First Edition. Two-toned brown cloth, stamped in a darker brown. Limited to 1000 copies. The illustrations by Lea have offset somewhat onto the opposite page. A minor bump to one lower spine corner. It is otherwise very clean and without marking. Very clean and tight. The dust jacket has a tiny tear of 3/8" to the upper, rear corner. A small wrinkle matching the lower corner bump. It is otherwise nearly fine and clean. Original price of $1.50 to the front flap. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 105 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Tom Lea (illustrator). 1st Edition. What a nice limited first edition. This is just one of 1000 copies. The book is in very good condition with fair on the jacket. Original price is you got $1.50. Enjoy this copy for your library!

LeatherBound. Condition: NEW. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 118. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1939 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English Pages: 118.

Leatherbound. Condition: NEW. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 116. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1939 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English Pages: 116.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Illustrated by Tom Lea (illustrator). First Edition; First Printing. 8vo; 105 pages; One of a 1000 copies, the book and dust jacket are both well taken care of.

Hardcover. Condition: Collectible-Very Good. First edition. Cloth. 1000 copies printed. Illustrations. By the end of the Civil War, John Duval had become a Captain. He went on to become an unsuccessful merchant then a successful surveyor. Through the years he did gain popularity for the sketches and verses he wrote, some humorous, some satirical and some nostalgic.

Paperback / softback. Condition: New. Lea, Tom (illustrator). This item is printed on demand. New copy - Usually dispatched within 5-9 working days 80.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st. D.j. (chipped top edge, top 2" darkened), two-tone cloth, 105 pp., nine illus. by Tom Lea. 1000c. w/ 950 for sale. A very nice & desirable Dobie/Tom Lea item. Duval was a close friend of Big-foot Wallace, hunted together & both served under Jack Hays in the Texas Rangers. Duval escaped from the massacre of Fannin's command at Goliad in 1836. This book contains some of his unpublished works. Ike Moore bookplate, minor tape marks on endpapers.

DOBIE, J. Frank. John C. Duval, First Texas Man of Letters: His Life and Some of His Unpublished Writings. Illustrated by Tom Lea. Dallas: Southwest Review, 1939. 1st ed. 105pp. Frontis., illus. Orig. cloth. Fine. One of 1000 copies. Cook 28. Dobie calls Duval one of the best writers of the 19th century.