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Little, Brown and Company, 1957. Hardcover. Good. 1957. 838 pages. No dust jacket. Orange and beige cloth. Vol.2. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Light tanning to spine and edges.

Little, Brown and Company, 1957. Hardcover. Good. 1957. 467 pages. No dust jacket. Orange and beige cloth. Vol.1. Pages are clean and bright, and appear almost good as new. With minimal tanning throughout. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Tanning to spine and edges. Boards are bowed. Book has a forward lean. Water marks to boards and spine.

Boston: Little Brown, 1957. Reprint. Hardcover. VERY GOOD/very good. With corrected opening sentence p.507. Designed by CARL HERTZOG, 2 volumes, 838pp., slipcase age toned and rubbed at edges. Clean bright set in a very good slipcase. BASIC 121. HOLMAN-HERTZOG DOZEN. SIX-SCORE 69. LOWMAN PRINTING ARTS 99 B.

Complete two volume set is in Near Fine condition; slightest rubbing to boards, gift inscription on first blank page of volume one, no other defects noted. No slipcase. See photos. NOT EX-LIBRARY.

Little Brown, MA, 1957. First edition second printing hardcover with corrected For Alice on page 507. Fine in rust buckram with creme spines and light foxing to front page edges volume two and fine pictorial publishers slipcase with slight rubbing to open edges

King Ranch, located in South Texas between Corpus Christi and Brownsville near Kingsville, is the largest ranch in Texas.[3] The King Ranch comprises 825,000 acres (3,340 km2; 1,289 sq mi)[4] and was founded in 1853 by Captain Richard King and Gideon K. Lewis. It includes portions of six Texas counties, including most of Kleberg County and much of Kenedy County, with portions extending into Brooks, Jim Wells, Nueces, and Willacy Counties. The ranch does not consist of one single contiguous plot of land, but rather four large sections called divisions. The divisions are the Santa Gertrudis, the Laureles, the Encino and the Norias. Only the first two of the four divisions border each other, and that border is relatively short.[5] The ranch was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1961.The King Ranch, by artist/author Tom Lea, is a two-volume definitive work that covers not only the history of the ranch, but also that of the region—most notably the Rio Grande Valley. As this is a set of… Read More

litle brown, 1957 2 volumes,hardback books in near fine condition,in worn slipcase [good condition]. Hardcover. Near Fine.

Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1957. Book. Illus. by Author. Very Good. Hardcover. First Trade Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. VG/none, used, 2 volumes in slipcase. Vol. 1 has 467pp; Vol. 2 has viii-ix, 369pp. Interiors are clean no marks, bindings are tight. Slight shelf rubbing to exteriors. Slipcase is good, a little bit of wear to opening edges..

Little Brown, 1957. Book. Near Fine. Hard Covers. Two volume set. No edition listed on copyright page. "Alice" not "For Alice" on pp. 507. Folded card with price of $17.50 laid in. In slipcase with light rubbing. .

Two volumes, complete, two-toned buckram, slipcase has some wear and a bump in one of the top corners, still very good. Books in very good condition, with previous owner's gift inscription in front pastedown of Volume 1. No other writing found. First trade edition, first state. In the first state, Chapter XIV on page 507 begins with Alice instead of For Alice This grammatical error was corrected in the next printing. Herd 1318. Six Score 69: Perhaps the most exhaustive ranch history ever written, and a tremendous account of the cattle industry in south Texas. The first edition was the product of a talented collaboration of the author-artist, his researchers, and the designer, Carl Hertzog. Herd 1319. Loring Campbell. Basic Texas Books 121. Lowman 99.

Boston, Mass: Little, Brown and Company,, 1957. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Slip-cased. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First trade issue. The books are very clean with only a hint of dulling to the spines. The slipcase has a little edge wear. For postage outside NZ this volume weighs 2.2 kg and can be checked for its postage cost to your location at NZ Post Ratefinder We do not make a profit from postage

Little Brown, 1957. Hardcover. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Complete 2 volume set. Minor shelf and handling wear, overall a clean solid copy with minimal signs of use. Slipcase slipt at the top. Boards of the books betray fading and nicks and other signs of wear and imperfection commensurate with age. Binding is tight and structurally sound. Pages without any extraneous marks. Sealed in plastic for shipping. Secure packaging for safe delivery.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Boston, MA: Little, Brown & Co., 1957. 1st . Hardcover. Very Good+/No Jackets. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Lea, Tom. 2vol.set: 838pp.incl.index; HBs quarter-bound; brick&lt.gray w/yellow,blk.&silver; some rub w/wear on edges&corners; spines sunned; stains,foredges; PONs; clean,tight pgs. "The hundred-year story of the greatest ranch in the world" maps&drawings. musty smell

Boston, MA: Little, Brown & Co., 1957. 1st . Hardcover. Near Fine/Good&Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Lea, Tom. 2vol.set in slipcase: 838pp.incl.index; HBs quarter-bound; brick&lt.gray w/yellow,blk.&silver; slight rub w/clean,tight pgs. Slipcase blk.w/brick&tan labels; rubbed w/wear on corners. "The hundred-year story of the greatest ranch in the world" maps&drawings. signed by Lea.

Little Brown, MA, 1980. First edition sixth printing hardcover. SIGNED INSCRIBED TO BY TIO KLEBERG OF THE KING RANCH FAMILY ON THE HALF TITLE PAGE. Fine in red buckram and beige buckram spine in fine publishers slipcase

Little Brown & Co.. 1957 1st Ed. VG+/ In Original Box, Box has edge rubbing, Vol 1 & Vol II 838 pages

Little Brown, MA, 1957. First edition first printing hardcover first state with Alice on page 507. INCLUDES KING RANCH POSTCARD SHOWING KING RANCH EMPLOYEE BETO MALDONADO SHOWING SANTA GERTRUDIS BULL SIGNED FRONT AND BACK BY MALDONADO LAID IN. Fine in rust buckram with creme spine and fine pictorial publishers slipcase with some rubbing to tips and bottom

This is warmly inscribed and signed by Tom Lea on the first free endpaper to a friend. There is no other writing. Scarce to find a signed copy. This is Volume 1 only of a two volume set. Book is square. Clean pages. Binding is solid.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1957. First trade edition. Inscribed by Tom Lea on the half-title of the first volume; "Inscribed for Kit and Clay Bedford / with warm regard / Tom Lea". Two octavo volumes. Illustrated. Publisher's two-tone cloth with spine lettering in silver and black, floral endpapers, original slipcase with laid-down illustrated title panels. 1958 gift inscription on front pastedowns. Very minor wear to open corners of slipcase. Very clean and attractive.

Kingsville, Texas: The King Ranch, 1957. Hardcover. Very good condition in a near fine slipcase. One of 3000 copies. Bound in the publisher's original cloth facsimile of the saddle blankets woven and used on the King Ranch. Slipcase covered in cloth with a leather spine label. The inner hinges of Volume I have been torn. The spine label on the slipcase has rubbing wear.