[Rarebooks] For Sale: Texas pamphlets by O.W.Williams

[Norman Kane]

We can supply the following pamphlets:

WILLIAMS, O. W.  BY THE CAMP-FIRE IN THE SOUTHWEST.  Dallas:
Martin Stationery, 1934.  Cover title.  26pp.  SIGNED inscription by Williams
to the Americana dealer, Charlie Eberstadt.

[HIS] THE STORY OF GUERO CARRANSA.   N.p., n.d.  Caption-title, 
self-wraps, 4pp.  A few ms. corrections.  (Apache Chief knifed to death by the
narrator's uncle.)  (OCLC: 5 copies - 4 in Texas.)

[HIS]  CRUSOE OR JACK, A STORY FOR OUR BOYS.  N.p., n.d. Caption-title,
self-wraps, 4pp. (A fight between a dog and a buffalo on the Texas 
prairie in 1877.)  (OCLC: 5 copies - 4 in Texas.)

[HIS] [LETTER TO:] J.C.WILLIAMS, CARE OF TEXAS CO., HANKOW, CHINA.
JAN. 25, 1925.  Caption-title, self-wraps, 4pp.  (The hanging of a 
murderer in Silver City in 1881.  "To him the world was lost for a 
woman.") (OCLC: two
copies - N.Mex.St.U. & U.Tex.)

[HIS] [LETTER TO:] G.F.GRANT, PORTLAND, MAINE. JUNE 30, 1930.
Caption-title, self-wraps, 8pp. (Shooting buffalo while surveying the 
site of the
future city of Lubbock.)  (OCLC: 3 copies - N.Mex.S.U., Tex.Tech.U., U.Tex.)

[HIS] [LETTER TO:] CAPTAIN JESSE C. WILLIAMS, SHANGHAI, CHINA.
MARCH 8, 1931.  Caption-title, self-wraps, 5pp.  (Praise for Stuart Edward
White's "The Long Rifle" and frontier anecdota.) (OCLC: 2 copies-U.Ariz,Yale.)

(The "Letters" were all written from Fort Stockton, Texas, and are 
all fugitive.)

(Oscar Waldo Williams was an attorney, surveyor, historian & county judge.
He was born in Mt.Vernon, Ky., in 1853 & died in  Ft.Stockton in 1946.)

The lot of 6,   $  225.00

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