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Dallas: Southwest Review, 1955. First Thus. Soft cover. Offprint, 1st printing thus. Wraps. 12pp. A Dobie Christmas keepsake. Fine. McV D53.
Dallas: Southwest Review, 1955. First Thus. Soft cover. Offprint, 1st printing thus. Wraps. 12pp. A Dobie Christmas keepsake. Fine. McV D53.
Texas Student Pub. Inc., Univ of Texas, Austin, 1940, 1940. First Edition. Hardcover. 4to textured & pictorial fabrikoid with gilt lettering. 528pp. Illust. Yearbook of the Univ. of Texas, so-called "Texas Literature Number". A number of sections of the yearbook were introduced with brief segments from famous Texas historians of.....
Austin: Texas Foklore Society, 1946. First Thus. Soft cover. 1st separate printing. Printed wraps. 24pp. Fine. Uncommon. McV D36.
Austin: Southwest Review, 1957. First Thus. Soft cover. Special offprint, 1st printing thus. Printed red wraps. 23pp. A Dobie Christmas keepsake. Fine. McV D63.
Austin: Univ of Texas Pr, 1995. Soft cover. 3rd Texas printing in pictorial wraps. 376pp. Illustrations by Charles Banks Wilson. Interesting presentation, "A taste of 'Texas lore' for _____ from Debbie Dobie -- 6/25/96". Owner's address label on ffep. A Southwest classic. Near fine. Herd 696. (1995).
Austin: Privately Printed & Texas Folk-Lore Society, 1940. First Thus. Soft cover. 1st separate printing, an essay from Dobie's Mustangs & Cow Horses. Printed wraps. 15pp. Scarce. McV D27.
Boston: Little Brown, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Cloth. 204pp. A collection of Prefaces Dobie wrote for other authors' books, & compiled posthumously by his wife, Bertha McKee Dobie. ffep (front fly) is pulled just a bit from the following page at the glue joint. But good copy in.....
Boston: Little, Brown & Co, 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Cloth & boards. 336pp. Notes & Credits. Index. Fine dj, the latter of which has abrasions on the back panel. Excellent essays by the master writer & storyteller.
Boston: Little, Brown & Co, 1946. Hardcover. 9th printing. Pictorial cloth. 285pp. Index. Gift inscription on ffep (an ideal copy for someone named Diana to give to someone named Ethel for Christmas). A wonderful read about when Dobie taught at Cambridge during WWII. Musty. Still a good+ copy in pc.....
Boston: Little, Brown & Co, 1943. Later edition. Hardcover. 1st printing of "New Edition." Decorated cloth. 302pp. Illus. Appendices. Index. Endpaper maps. Fine in good dj (small snag front panel; backstrip faded). The bright & attractive original dj color, design, art was used for this edition. Great reading. Dobie's first.....
Chicago: Times Journal Pub Co, 1942. First Edition. Soft cover. Original issue in folio pictorial wraps. June 1, 1942 issues. Includes 4pp article on gathering of Texas Folklore Society at Texas State College for Women in Denton. Huge photo showing Frank Dobie holding forth with an interested audience around a......
TFS, Austin, 1928, 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. Variant binding with patterned maroon & black cloth with gilt-stamped title, etc., on cover & spine. 201pp. Signed & dated in 1930, by the well-known SW historian Mildred Pickle Mayhall. Contains two contributions & an Introduction by Dobie. TFS #7. Some wear to.....