Nice Jacket, Later State Binding
A Texas Ranger and Frontiersman: The Days of Buck Barry in Texas, 1845–1906
Publication: Dallas, TX: The Southwest Press, 1932. First Edition.
Notes: "The best memoir of a Texas Ranger during the mid-19th century... One of Barry's most valuable contributions is his account of the daily life of the pioneer on the edge of civilization"—John Jenkins, Basic Texas Books, no. 11.
"Modern readers may not find Buck Barry's attitudes and views entirely lovable, especially concerning Indians. But while he didn't sympathize with them, he treated them as honorable foes, never sneering at them or projecting them as mere savages to be exterminated"—A. C. Green, Fifty Best Books on Texas.
Ramon Adams, The Rampaging Herd, no. 927, "A chapter on stock farming."
Barry kept a journal and other documents which he used to compile this memoir. He died before he finished it; Greer, the first historian to earn a Ph.D. in Texas, edited the completed chapters and finished compiling the final ones.
xii, 254, [6: blank] pages, plus a frontispiece, and five inserted plates (four of which are maps). This copy lacks the illustration list (as issued).
Edition + Condition: First edition (first printing with 1932 on the title page and the copyright page). This book is found in at least three bindings. This copy is in the publisher's green cloth with red-orange embossing on the front cover and the same color on the spine, including the publisher's name in one line. This is probably a later binding, without the illustration list. In this copy, the sheets are mostly unopened, including the gathering where the illustration list would go (between pp. x and xi, in other copies). Jenkins describes many variants of the titles in Basic Texas Books, but not for this book.
A very good copy in a very good dust jacket, with some chipping along the edges and a small hole in the spine. The folds are fragile, but intact. Scarce in any kind of a decent jacket.
Item No: #365281
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