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YEAR BOOK FOR TEXAS: PARTY CONVENTIONS, ELECTION RETURNS, INAUGURATION OF GOVERNOR LANHAM AND LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR NEAL, LEGISLATIVE WORK, PUBLIC OFFICIALS AND CURRENT REPORTS OF DEPARTMENTS AND STATE INSTITUTIONS, IMPORTANT EVENTS, OBITUARIES OF DISTINGUISHED DEAD, INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT, STATISTICS, BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, AND HISTORICAL MANUSCRIPTS NEVER BEFORE PUBLISHED. VOLUME II
by RAINES, C. W. [STATE LIBRARIAN]
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About This Item
Austin: Gammel-Statesman Publishing Company, 1903., 1903. First edition. First edition. 8vo. Inked presentation inscription on the front pastedown sheet. Original red cloth, titles stamped in gilt on the spine, iv [2], 483 pp. plus 17 pages of advertisements, dedicatory preface, preface, frontispiece (Battle of San Jacinto from the painting by McArdle), illustrated with twelve full page engravings, portraits, including photographic portraits of the Dallas Texas Volunteer Guard, biographical information on many early state officials, footnotes, and contains an index for volumes I & II. Author was appointed the first State Librarian by Governor Hogg. His two year books are a wealth of documented information for the period and cover diverse topics including military statistics on the Civil War and its veterans, biographies of important personages and their portraits, agricultural information. The great Texas bibliographer's works are scarce. "Every bit as valuable as the early Richardson almanacs, and full of articles, biographies, reports, and statistics unavailable elsewhere." - Jenkins. Bright red cloth, titles stamped in gilt on the spine, spine panel resewn with original spine laid down, else a solid very good, tight copy.
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- Title
- YEAR BOOK FOR TEXAS: PARTY CONVENTIONS, ELECTION RETURNS, INAUGURATION OF GOVERNOR LANHAM AND LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR NEAL, LEGISLATIVE WORK, PUBLIC OFFICIALS AND CURRENT REPORTS OF DEPARTMENTS AND STATE INSTITUTIONS, IMPORTANT EVENTS, OBITUARIES OF DISTINGUISHED DEAD, INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT, STATISTICS, BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, AND HISTORICAL MANUSCRIPTS NEVER BEFORE PUBLISHED. VOLUME II
- Author
- RAINES, C. W. [STATE LIBRARIAN]
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Gammel-Statesman Publishing Company, 1903.
- Place of Publication
- Austin
- Date Published
- 1903
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Buckingham Books specializes in new, used and rare books dealing with Mystery and Western Americana. Books in the mystery field include not only Mystery, but also Detective, Espionage, and Adventure Fiction. Our Western Americana Section offers books about the development of the American West. All books in our inventory are First Editions unless clearly stated otherwise.
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