TEXANA CATALOGUE PRICES, volumes 7-17, 1989-1999
Austin: Richard and Shelly Morrison, 1999. 1st printing in wrappers. Soft cover. Very Good. Item #2507037
1st (and only) printings. Quarto wrappers with a clear plastic front cover except volumes 7 & 8. Most volumes had a pagination of just over 100 pages except for volume 17 which is a whopping 265+ pages. Each page is printed a small font size, so there are almost countless thousands of entries of Western books, maps, and documents gleaned from dozens and dozens of Western Americana booksellers (your bookseller included) who issued catalogues before the Internet era for rare book sources had done much more than given birth. Tens of thousands of entries. Most with indices in the back for Howes U.S.-iana entries NOT in alphabetical sequence, and indices of U.S. Gov. documents chronologically, and also maps the same. As I noted in the other Morrison guides for sale here of general Western Americans, it is unfathomable to me that the Morrisons did such time consuming and intricately detailed work to put these together. They were not inexpensive, but they were essential then. Yes, we have the Internet now, but for the developing younger bookseller for certain, and maybe still some of us older folks, an in-print set of this nature may represent, over time, a solid and useful investment. All vg to fine condition.
Price: $350.00