Tom Lea King Ranch

Lea, Tom Tom Lea illustrations: The King Ranch. volume One. 1957 Boston Little Brown

Very good tight condition, binding taped, ex lib some pencilling

[SW: King Ranch Ranching Western Americana]

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Lea, Tom: The King Ranch : two volume Set, Boston, MA Little, Brown & Co. 1957 ; fester Einband / hard cover; 1. Ed.
Very Good+ Lea, Tom

467 pp, 468 to 838 pp, quarterbound w/brick red buckram boards and with tan buckram spine w/black title block w/silver lettering, tan slipcase, green-wht illustrated endpapers. LB blindstamped on the front cover of both volumes. The book is an account of the most famous ranch in the world. "Perhaps the most exhaustive ranch history ever written & a tremendous account of the cattle industry in south Texas." Reese #69, Herd #1318,Lowman #99B, and Basic Texas #121. Page 507 starts "Alice and Robert". prev owner's address label on ffep on both volumes, prev owner wrote on the ffep, slight sunning to the spines, professionally built slipcase. First Edition, First State No Jacket/Very Good Slipcase Hard Cover 8vo - over 8" - 9" Tall Octavo; First Edition, First State

[SW: RANCHING CATTLE INDUSTRY TEXAS BIOGRAPHY KLEBERG RICHARD KING TEXIANA OLD WEST COWBOYS LEA, TOM NON-FICTION TEXANA HISTORY SOUTHWEST AGRICULTUREAmericana Texana History Southwest Agriculture]

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Lea, Tom. The King Ranch (two Volumes). Drawings by the author. Research by Holland McCombs. Annotation by Francis L. Fugate, Kingsville, Texas: The King Ranch, 1957.

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. Hard Cover Condition:Very good condition in a near fine slipcase

[SW: Texas]

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Life Magazine July 8, 1957 -- Cover: The Fabulous King Ranch, Time, Inc. 1957 ; weicher Einband / soft cover
Very Good+

Includes: Robert Landry's photo re-creations of old pinups; Hurrican Audrey strikes Louisiana; Colonel John Nickerson found guilty of releasing secret documents; Harry Truman shows off his new presidential library; Miners recued from Powhatan mine collapse; The Mighty Ranch of Richard King, Part I -- Text and drawings by Tom Lea, photos by Eliot Elisofon; Vocational students at Whittier, Calif. High School build a house; Movies: Epic 'The Pride and the PAssion' with Cary Grant, Sophia Loren, Frank Sinatra; Habib Bourguiba, premier of Tunisia; Churches merge to form the United Church of Christ in Cleveland; Henri Cartier-Bresson's photos of tourists in Washington, DC; Baseball -- the Amazing McDaniel brothers -- Lindy and Von; Will rain spoin Robin Rowan's debut party? Mailing label, minimal wear. Magazine

[SW: James E. Wagner, Fred Hoskins]

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