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Growing Up on Preston Road: A Family Portrait 1844-1964
by Beard, Marjorie Pierce
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/no jacket
- Seller
-
Dallas, Texas, United States
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About This Item
Signed. The author is descended from the family that moved to, what is now, Preston Road, in Dallas, Texas, in 1844. Texas was an independent republic at that time. The last of the family sold out in 1964, to make way for Valley View Shopping Center at the corner of Preston and LBJ Frwy. There are a lot of archival photographs, documents and a map of Dallas when Preston Road was called Preston Trail (formerly a cattle trail, later State Hwy 289). This first edition book is in fine, as new, condition. There is no dust jacket, but I don't think the book was issued with one. The author has signed, under her name, on the title page (no inscription). The first, and last, time I saw a copy of this book for sale was 6 years ago and I bought it; and this is it.
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Details
- Seller
- mark mcdonald
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- sgn 1121
- Title
- Growing Up on Preston Road
- Author
- Beard, Marjorie Pierce
- Format/Binding
- Tan cloth, gilt title, inset archival photograph
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- no jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Nortex Press
- Place of Publication
- Austin, Texas
- Date Published
- 1989
- Pages
- 120
- Size
- 8.75"x0.5"x11"
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Dallas, Texas history
- Bookseller catalogs
- sgn - Tex;
Terms of Sale
mark mcdonald
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
mark mcdonald
Biblio member since 2022
Dallas, Texas
About mark mcdonald
Book collector for over 30 years. I'm retired and ready to sell. I buy almost exclusively from estate sales and since I've lived in Dallas my whole life, I know the people and where to go. I am a low volume collector and seller and deal in higher quality books. I have a lot of signed and inscribed books. These signatures have not been officially authenticated, but I am confident in their authenticity so I will guarantee them in perpetuity if it can be reasonably demonstrated that the signature is incorrect. .
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