Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: A heavy item: non-U.S. shipping mat require extra fees; please inquire. Ex-lib. Hardcover rebound in library red buckram, no jacket, 8vo. xv + 584pp. Index, bibliography. Footnotes and illustrations throughout. Good. Lib indications are buckram boards with call label to lower spine, small stamp and marker dot to upper page edges; bookplate front pastedown; pocket rear pastedown. Boards overall clean and sharp with occasional rubbing, bumped upper corners; binding strong and square; moderate uniform toning to unmarked pages. Shelving soil to upper page edges. A strong READING COPY.
Seller: Bookfeathers, LLC, Lewisburg, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$18.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: book is in Good condition Later printing Spine is Faded. Age discoloration noted on outside boards and on end pages. . Boards not bumped. Not remaindered. No dust jacket All-ways well boxed, All-ways fast service. Thanks.
Seller: All-Ways Fiction, Carson City, NV, U.S.A.
Price: US$24.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Red cover; 23 chapters; b/w illustrations; footnotes; bib.; index. The front board has a 1 in., faint stain. The text block ends have darkened. One page margin has a 1 in. thinned spot with a 1/4 in. hole in the middle. Three page margins each have a closed tear, 1/8 in. to a 3/4 in. Y- shaped, closed tear. Scans e-mailed upon request.
Seller: Books from the Past, Memphis, TN, U.S.A.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Adams, Six Guns #2333. Howes #194. First Edition of this classic western Americana. Good only: binding is age-dulled (spine title is difficult to read). Wear to the binding along the edges. No distortion of the binding from reading or improper shelving. The front and rear free end sheets and pastedowns are age-toned. The good news: pages are tight and clean with no marks. No name of previous owner. No odor. No dust jacket.
Seller: Book Stall of Rockford, Inc., Rockford, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hardcover, red cloth, lacking dust-jacket. 584 pages. Bibliography, Index. Illustrated with drawings by Lonnie Rees and photographs. First trade edition (after Limited, signed edition) with same date on title and copyright page and no additional printings listed. No previous ownership marks. Cloth age soiled and spine lettering dulled. Paper on inner hinges cracking, albeit hinges sound. A good, used copy with text and illustrations clean and unmarked. Howes 194
Seller: Great Expectations Rare Books, Staten Island, NYC, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$34.56 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: CLEAN Good 1935 first edition hard cover, no jacket. first state. prior owner's name on top and bottom edge. Spine is pretty faded. Has older book plate. else tight and clean with square corners.
Seller: Wm Burgett Bks and Collectibles, san diego, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Previous owner's inscription and writing to the book's front inner board
Seller: K & L KICKIN' BOOKS, Corinth, TX, U.S.A.
Price: US$56.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 584pp.incl.index; HB red w/gilt; rubbed w/lt.wear on edges; spine sunned; PONft.endpaper; some tan w/clean,tight pgs. "From the official records I have obtained the official facts, but from the living men I have, I trust, caught something og the spirit of an institution." illus.
Seller: Xochi's Bookstore & Gallery, truth or consequences, NM, U.S.A.
Price: US$66.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Owner note to inner pastedown, second note to title page. Red underlining to introductory J. Fairfax/Blakesborough verse. Inner text clean and unmarked. Red cloth binding tight and straight, corners sharp, very light shelfwear. ; 9.0 X 6.0 X 1.0 inches
Seller: Books on the Boulevard, Sherman Oaks, CA, U.S.A.
Webb, Walter Prescott.. THE TEXAS RANGERS.. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1935.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: D.j. (very worn, chipped, repaired), 584 pp., illus., photos, index. BTB #212(B)-1st ed., 2nd.state in the extremely scarce d.j. "The most important work on the Texas Texas Rangers." Far and away the best work.
Seller: The Wright Collection, Waxahachie, TX, U.S.A.
Price: US$222.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo. pp. 1 p.l., [xv], [584]. with half-title. numerous text illus. from photographs or drawings by Lonnie Rees. original cloth (spine faded). First Edition of the definitive history of the Texas Rangers. Howes W-194. Jenkins 212. Rader 3595.
Seller: D & E LAKE LTD. (ABAC/ILAB), Toronto, ON, Canada
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Small 4to. Pp. xiv, [2], 583, [1]. Frontis. illustration of a Rio Grande Guard. Photos, portraits, facsimiles, drawings by Lonnie Rees. Bibliography. Index. Bound in full red cloth with gilt lettering stamped on spine. Dust jacket shows rubbing, and evidence of crimping on front panel, old tape repairs on verso to short closed tears. Price of $5 intact on front flap. A solid copy. First edition, with "1935" on the title page. Per Jenkins, who dedicates just over six pages to Webb's opus, "this is the most important work on the Texas Rangers". Further, he quotes Henry Steele Commager as commenting, "like all really important books, it transcends its title." ADAMS (Six Guns, 1064 ("this is the most thorough work yet published on the Texas Rangers . "); HOWES, W-194; JENKINS (Basic Texas Books), 212.
Seller: Long Brothers Fine & Rare Books, ABAA, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Illus. with drawings by Lonnie Rees with photographs, facsimiles. 584pp. Tall 8vo, red cloth, edges of corners lightly worn and bumped, top margins throughout very lightly dampstained, some bottom margins lightly dampstained, spine faded from sun exposure. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1935. First Trade Edition "The most thorough work to date on the Texas Rangers. It naturally deals with many Texas outlaws." Adams, Six-Guns, 2333. Howes W-194. Jenkins, Texas History 963.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$402.50 + shipping
Description: Illustr, 9.5 x 6, red cloth, 584 with index, corners slightly bumped else ok in edge chipped and torn dw. FIRSTTRADE ED, SIGNED BY AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. First issue. Cloth, xiv [2], 584 pp., numerous illustrations, bibliography, index. Texas historian Rupert Richardson said: "Wisely conceived, profusely illustrated and beautifully written, the book is a fitting monument to a great institution." "It is the most thorough and reliable work to date on the Texas Rangers and contains much material on Texas outlaws."---Ramon Adams. "The beginning, middle and end of the subject."---J. Frank Dobie. "This is the most important work on the Texas Rangers."---John H. Jenkins. Near fine copy in dust jacket with some light edgewear.
Seller: BUCKINGHAM BOOKS, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, GREENCASTLE, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: SIGNED, limited first edition from 1935. SIGNED by author Webb on limitation page, hand numbered #43 of 205 made. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company and The Riverside Press Cambridge. Book itself is still close to "very good condition" overall. Binding is sound and pages are unmarked, with the exception of previous owner's bookplate affixed inside front cover. Cover opens easily, but is still firmly bound. Hardcover boards are square with minor shelf wear. Leather spine shows significant shelf wear, rubbing and scuffing, with chips to the title card. Slipcase is missing, and NOT included. AB-316
Seller: Recycled Books, Denton, TX, U.S.A.
Price: US$1100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 584 pages, illustrations, frontis, new end-papers, minor wear LIMITED EDITION #131 of 205 copies, SIGNED and numbered by the author, specially bound with leather spine, lacks the slipcase. Laid in is the publisher’s 4 page promotional for the book and a signed letter from the publisher announcing the limited edition. Six-Guns 2333 "The most thorough work to date on the Texas Rangers. It deals with many Texas outlaws." Howes W194, Rader 3595, Jenkins Basic Texas Books 212.
Seller: Old West Books (ABAA), St. Robert, MO, U.S.A.
Price: US$1600.00 + shipping
Description: An ex-library copy in near fine condition in 1/4, light brown morocco leather with tan covered boards with a dark blue leather title label stamped with gilt text on the spine. The top edge of the text block is gilt. A small quarto of 9 3/8 by 6 1/4 inches with very light rubbing to the leather at the head of the spine. The book plate of Jean Hersholt is on the front paste down. (Hersholt was an early Hollywood star his most famous role being in the 1937 film version of Heidi.) The title page is stamped with a library name at the lower margin and the dedication page shows a five digit number and there is the ghost of something removed from the rear paste down. Those are the only library marks in this copy. It does not have a dust jacket as issued; however, it is contained within a new replacement, black. cloth covered slipcase with the original, printed paper title label laid down on its spine with the handwritten number "30". This is one of the 205 signed by the author and numbered limited edition copies. This copy is identified as number 30 on the limitation page. 583 numbered pages including an index, text and illustrated from drawings by Lonnie Rees and with images from black and white photographs. First trade editions of this title in collectible condition are considered quite scarce. Signed, limited editions even more so. Ramon F. Adams in his bibliography Six-Guns and Saddle Leather referred to this title as: "The most thorough work to date on the Rangers." (Adams, 6-Guns 2333, Howes, W195) Laid-in at the front of the book is a book review from the New York Herald Tribune written by Henry Steele Commager.
Seller: Town's End Books, ABAA, Deep River, CT, U.S.A.