The Texas Rangers. A Century Of Frontier Defense.

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 131. 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 photograph. Laid-in to this copy is the original prospectus from the publisher and announcing "The First Authoritative History Of The Texas Rangers," and with a typed letter on Houghton Mifflin Company stationery dated July 29, 1935, and signed by Manley H. Jones. that promotes the importance of owning this book. 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." Fine, bright, tight copy housed in a custom made slipcase with leather spine label and titles stamped in gilt

Inventory Number: 52664