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Ananias Twist Snide Lights on Texas History
San Antonio, TX The Naylor Company 1959 Hard Cover Very Good Good 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Ken Holder
Satire on Texas History by two TCU History professors, Marguerite Potter, Ph.D. and Curtis Nunn, Ph.D. Time capsule of Texas humor -- considered politically incorrect today! Book is crisp with slight edgewear and no interior markings. Dust jacket is intact with edgewear and tearing along spine. 1/2" chip on bottom edge. Slight soiling and fading of colors on dust jacket. Clever cartooning.
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18.50 USD
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Bill Mauldin Up Front
Cleveland World Publishing 1945 First Edition Third Printing Decorative Cloth Good No Jacket 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Cartoonist Bill Mauldin, the GI's friend, created Willie and Joe and a few enemies among the command. Patton even asked him to knock it off, but Mauldin kept taking the dogfoot's side. This WWII classic opens to signatures at half-title page and is beginning to split. It is intact, however, and will make a good reading copy. Brown boards have a dime-sized light spot on front board, and slight bumping on corners and spine ends. Pages are tanned.
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12.00 USD
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Bob Hope Five Women I Love, Bob Hope's Vietnam Story
Garden City, New York Doubleday & Co., Inc. 1966 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good+ Good 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Bob Hope, stalwart and determined entertainer of U.S. troops, on the five women he could take on each of his Vietnam trips. Love that Bob! Bright and tight book with slight bumping on corners and spine ends. Dust jacket has a closed tear along spine and into front cover and chipping on corners. Now in protective cover.
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12.50 USD
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Bob Hope I Owe Russia $1200
Garden City, NY Doubleday & Co., Inc. 1963 Hard Cover Good+ No Jacket 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Book is tight with minor edgewear and some bumping on corners and soiling.
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7.50 USD
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Breger, Dave The Original "GI Joe" ("Private Breger")
Garden City, New York Blue Ribbon Books 1945 No Stated Edition Hard Cover Very Good Good+ 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
"From the Pages of 'Yank' and 'Stars and Stripes'" Clean, tight and funny. Slight edge and corner wear. Previous owner's bookplate on front pasted down paper. Dust jacket has chipping and tearing along edges with losses along spine and front top and bottom. Back of jacket has a closed rip in middle of cover. Now in protective cover. Bit of WWII humor and history.
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20.00 USD
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Elizabeth Fowler Draper Widow Woman
San Antonio, TX Bibb Publishing 1947 2nd Printing Hard Cover Very Good+ Very Good 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
126 pp. Black boards with bright silver print. Crisp, clean and bright with light wear to boards. Gift inscription to previous owner on front free end paper - else clean interior. Two order forms for another Draper book laid in. Dust jacket is pink with clever cartooning and type in black. Worn on top edge and at corners and on spine ends. Spine is sun-faded and has some staining. Rear of jacket also has light staining on top edge and on flap fold. Pre-feminist look at widowhood - with incisive humor.
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10.00 USD
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Faulk, John Henry The Uncensored John Henry Faulk
Texas Monthly Press 1985 0877190135 / 9780877190134 First Edition, 1st Printing Hard Cover Very Good+ Very Good 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Humorous and self-effacing inscription by the author on front free end paper. Bright, tight and clean copy with minor bumping on corners and spine extremems. Dust jacket has price intact and laminate shows some scuffing. Top edge has a little creasing, and front has 1" closed tear on top edge, and rear top edge has 1/4" closed tear and another 1" closed tear on flap fold. Flap folds have light rubbing wear. Corners and spine ends have light creasing and wear. Now in protective cover.
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36.00 USD
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Flemmons, Jerry Plowboys, Cowboys and Slanted Pigs: A Collection
Forth Worth, Texas, U.S.A. Texas Christian Univ Pr 1984 091264690X / 9780912646909 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good+ Very Good+ 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall J. D. Crowe Signed by Author
Inscribed on front free end paper by Jerry Flemmons who was a columnist, humorist and Texana enthusiast for all of Texas but on the payroll of the Fort Worth Star Telegram. Book is clean and bright with very slight left lean and faint foxing on top and bottom page edges. Dust jacket is bright white with light creasing on edges and a little rubbing on rear panel which is discernible with a critical eye. Very nice signed copy.
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25.00 USD
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James Harvery Briggs Friend Jasper: The Chaparral Philosopher
San Antonio, Texas, U.S.A. Naylor 1944 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good Very Good 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Texas humor and philosophy. 90 pp. Tight copy with light corner wear. Spine ends are bumped.Gift inscription on front free end paper. Page edges are a little tanned. Dust jacket shows rubbing on light background with a few dark marks near hinge of rear panel. Chipping on corners and spine end with some loss. Light tearing/chipping on edges. Now in protective cover.
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30.00 USD
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Jenkins, Dan Rude Behavior
New York Doubleday & Co., Inc. 1998 0385470002 / 9780385470001 First Edition, 1st Printing Hard Cover Near Fine Very Good+ 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Signed by Author
Signed by author on Doubleday bookplate on page with quote from a Gary P. Nunn song - "If you don't believe I love you, honey, just ask my wife". Sometimes raucous, sometimes irreverent but always funny, Dan Jenkins once again ventures into football and Texas, his favorite subjects for bawdy humor. 1st Ed., 1st ptg. Book is crisp, tight and clean, with minor corner and spine end wear. Dust jacket has price intact and a fairly rude picture on front! Some creasing on edges, with bottom edge laminate beginning to separate. Now in protective cover.
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18.50 USD
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Jerry Flemmons Plowboys, Cowboys and Slanted Pigs
Fort Worth, TX Texas Christian University Press 1984 Reprint Soft Cover Very Good- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall J. D. Crowe
Trade paperback copy of noted Fort Worth Star-Telegram writer/editior, Jerry Flemons. With foreword by another well-known FW writer, George Dolan. Drawings by J.D. Crowe will make you smile. 230 pp. Wrappers have very slight wear. White background shows a little darkening, especially on spine. Light foxing on page edges. Else clean. A chance to read Texana from the man who loved, studied and wrote it for a lifetime.
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10.00 USD
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John Randolph The Jokes on Texas
Tomball John Randolph 1964 3rd Edn. Soft Cover Near Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
We really laughed at these jokes in the 50's and 60's! (First edn. was in 1954) Has postcard-type back so unsuspecting tourists might mail a memento of Texas.Tight little paperback, crisp and bright. Two tiny spots on bottom front cover. Harks back to another, simpler time - collectible and camp!
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10.00 USD
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Larry L. King Warning: Writer at Work, The Best Collectibles of Larry L. King
Fort Worth, TX Texas Christian University Press 1985 087565004X / 9780875650043 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good Very Good 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Signed by Author
Inscribed and signed by King on front free end paper. Foreword by Edwin "Bud" Shrake. 189 pp. Book has slight left lean. Bright copy with light smudge on foreward page edge. Bumping on top corners. Dust jacket has price intact and chipping with light creasing on top corners. Spine ends have light wear and creasing. Rear flap fold is slightly rubbed.
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23.50 USD
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Marion Hargrove See Here, Private Hargrove
New York Henry Holt and Company 1942 First Edition Cloth Good+ No Jacket 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
1st Edn, 1st Ptg, August 1942 under copyright.With foreword by Maxwell Anderson. American wartime humor which was made into a movie in 1942 starring Robert Walker, Donna Reed, Chill Wills and Keenan Wynn. Slight cock to right. Boards have some spotting and bumping on corners with wear along hinges and spine ends. No internal markings, though paper is yellowed due to age, and there are a few incidents of spotting on some pages.
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8.50 USD
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P. J. O'Rourke Age and Guile Beat Youth, Innocence and a Bad Haircut
New York Atlantic Monthly Press 1995 0871136090 / 9780871136091 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good+ Very Good+ 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
"25 Years of P.J. O'Rourke". Copy is crisp and tight with minor edgewear and slight page end soiling. No interior markings. Unclipped dust jacket has slight edgewear and faint rubbing. Nice copy. 1st Ed., 1st Ptg.
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10.00 USD
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Pillsbury, Dorothy L. No High Adobe
Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S.A. University of New Mexico Press 1960 First Edition Fifth Printing Hard Cover Very Good- Very Good- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall M. J. Davis
198 pp. Book has slight right lean. Rose colored boards have light corner and spine end war. Front free end paper has 1/3" X 2" piece excised to remove previous owner's name. Dust jacket has price intact and light edgewear. Areas of fading on both panels and spine. Occasional faint spotting with a place or two of rubbing. Now in protective cover.
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25.00 USD
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