Second Printing, Laid-in Autograph
Coronado's Children; Tales of Lost Mines and Buried Treasures of the Southwest
Publication: Dallas: The Southwest Press, 1930. Later printing.
Notes: "This is the best work ever written on hidden treasure, and one of the most fascinating books on any subject to come out of Texas"—John Jenkins, Basic Texas Books, no. 43.
"Folklore about lost mines and buried treasure, caves full of gold bars, and jack-loads of Spanish silver... I know of no other Texas book from which so many feature writers have filched so much"—A. C. Greene, Fifty Best Texas Books.
xvi, 367, [1: blank] pages plus six inserted half-tone plates.
Edition + Condition: Second printing, with dedication reading "a clean cowman...." A very good copy in a very good dust jacket missing shallow pieces along the top edge and with a few tears. Laid into this copy is a small Kroch's Bookstore autographed bookplate, possibly from another book.
NB: Jenkins calls this the "second state" of the first edition, which reflects a common variety of collector/dealer wishful thinking when a book doesn't say second printing (but then again, the first doesn't say that either and no one has any problem saying it's a first printing). In the first printing, the word "clean" is missing from the dedication; it was restored for the second printing. Jenkins quotes Dobie on the subject: "In the second and other printings the dedication is printed as I wrote it."
Item No: #220294
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