Condition: Very Good in Very Good Dust Jacket

The Society had its beginnings at the A&M-Texas football game in 1909. John Avery Lomax, a forty-two-year-old A&M English teacher from Harvard and Leonidas Warren Payne, a thirty-six year old UT English professor and linguist, met to discuss establishing a folklore society, as had been suggested by George Lyman Kittredge of Harvard. The announced purpose of the society was to collect and make known to the public songs and ballads, superstitions, signs and omens, cures and peculiar customs, legends, dialects, games, plays, and dances, and riddles and proverbs. Preface: "in which the author atte...
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Paisanos: A Folklore Miscellany

By: Abernethy, Francis Edward (Ed. )

Price: $27.50

Publisher: Austin, TX, Encino Press : 1978

Edition: 1st Edition

Seller ID: 22552

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good Dust Jacket

Ex-library markings kept at a minimum since it was not intended for check-out, only for library reference keeping this book from being near fine. DJ in mylar. The preface: "in which the editor apologizes to those readers who thought they were buying a bird book about roadrunners." black and white photographs plus line drawings. ; Publications of the Texas Folklore Society, Number XLI Series; Ex-Library; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 179 pages; 22552
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The Care & Feeding Of Ideas A Guide to Encouraging Creativity

By: Adams, James L.

Price: $16.50

Publisher: Addison-Wesley : 1987

Edition: 2nd Printing

Seller ID: 24998

ISBN-13: 9780201101607

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good Dust Jacket

The sequel to "Conceptual Blockbusting". The mystery and mechanics of creative thought. DJ edgeworn. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 223 pages; 24998
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Tales From Watership Down

By: Adams, Richard; Lawrence, John

Price: $21.60

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf : 1996

Edition: 2nd Printing

Seller ID: 26246

ISBN-13: 9780679451259

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good Dust Jacket

The long-awaited return to the magical world of his classic novel. Round gold "all new stories" sticker on front cover partially removed, leaving an abrasion on DJ. Otherwise like new. ; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 267 pages; 26246
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SPACE OPERA

By: Aldiss, Brian W.

Price: $16.50

Publisher: Doubleday & Company : 1974

Seller ID: 27165

ISBN: 15R-301

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good Dust Jacket

Previous owner's label ; Book Club Edition; Cover Art; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 304 pages; 27165
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The Alexander Memoirs, 1940?1945 Introduction by James Holland, Foreword by Shane Alexander

By: Alexander, Earl Of Tunis

Price: $22.50

Publisher: Frontline Books : 2010

Seller ID: 32303

ISBN-13: 9781848325678

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good Dust Jacket

This is a comprehensive new edition of a classic wartime memoir. ; B&W Plates; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 210 pages; 32303
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American Locomotives

By: Alexander, Edwin P.

Price: $18.00

Publisher: Bonanza : 1950

Edition: Reprint

Seller ID: 26341

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good Dust Jacket

Some foxing, DJ in mylar ; B&W Illustrations; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 254 pages; 26341
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Down At The Depot

By: Alexander, Edwin P.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: NY, Bramhall House : 1970

Seller ID: 23179

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good Dust Jacket

Edgewear; DJ chipped, in new mylar. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 320 pages; 23179
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VANISHING WILDLIFE OF NORTH AMERICA

By: Allen, Thomas B.

Price: $10.95

Publisher: National Geographic Society : 1974

Seller ID: 25273

ISBN-13: 9780870441295

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good Dust Jacket

DJ mildly edgeworn. Previous owner's cataloging label taped to spine of DJ and name inside. ; Special Publications Division Series; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 25273F
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CASSEROLE SPECIALTIES

By: Anders, Nedda Casson

Price: $13.00

Publisher: Gramercy : 1955

Edition: 1st Edition

Seller ID: 14459

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good Dust Jacket

Previous owner's name. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 128 pages; 14459G
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The Generals Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee

By: Anderson, Dwight, and Nancy Scott

Price: $11.00

Publisher: Knopf : 1988

Edition: 3rd Printing

Seller ID: 28569

ISBN-13: 9780394521060

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good Dust Jacket

This full-scale, engrossing dual biography follows Lee and Grant from their childhoods through West Point, the Army, the Mexican War, the 1850s--when Lee pursued his military calling at a series of Army outposts and Grant became a clerk in his father's leather-goods store. Remainder mark top edge. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 523 pages; 28569
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Trial by Fire The 1972 Easter Offensive, America's Last Vietnam Battle

By: Andrade, Dale

Price: $16.00

Publisher: Hippocrene Books : 1995

Seller ID: 32571

ISBN-13: 9780781802864

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good Dust Jacket

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 600 pages; 32571
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The Disciples

By: Andrew, Joseph J.

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Simon & Schuster : 1993

Edition: 1st Edition

Seller ID: 23560

ISBN-13: 9780671795993

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good Dust Jacket

Edgewear. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 428 pages; 23560T
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The Life And Tragic Death Of Jesse James The Western Desperado

By: Anonymous

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Austin, TX, The Steck Company : 1966

Edition: Facsimile

Seller ID: 29656

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good Dust Jacket

Glassine jacket over light green boards with minor foxing. In its own slipcase which is also stained and foxed. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 96 pages; 29656
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