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1. DOBIE, J.FRANK. THE MUSTANGS. Boston: Little, Brown, [1952]. First edition. 8vo. Two-tone pic. cloth, pic. end sheets, xvii, [1], 376 pp. Illustrated by Charles Banks Wilson. "The greatest of all books about range horses and rated by many as the best of Dobie's books." --Jeff Dykes. Fine in fine dust jacket. A range classic. $375.00 HERD 696, SIX SCORE 33, COOK 46, MCVICKER A14a, GRAFF 1100, DYKES pg.18, POWELL 28, DOBIE p.132, 151. (19766)

2. DOBIE, J.FRANK, MODY C. BOATRIGHT [EDITED BY]. STRAIGHT TEXAS. A TEXAS FOLK-LORE SOCIETY BOOK. Austin: The Steck Company, [1937]. First edition. 8vo. Green cloth, blue lettering on front cover and spine, [10], 348 pp., contributors, index. A book of Texas folk-lore that is made up of stories connected with the place names of Texas. Twenty-one authors share their stories in this fascinating collection. Authors included are J. Frank Dobie, C. L. Sonnichsen, Cornelia Chambers, etc., who provide stories about the Brazos River, cattlemen, Gail Borden, brands, Comanche Indians, Sam Bass, forts, horses, ranches, folk-lore, and much more. Dobie contributes two stories, TAKING IT STRAIGHT and STORIES IN TEXAS PLACE NAMES. Fine, tight copy in dust jacket with light wear to the extremities. $175.00 MCVICKER B 27. COOK 86. (19806)

3. DOBIE, J. FRANK. STORIES OF CHRISTMAS AND THE BOWIE KNIFE. Austin: The Steck Company, [1953]. First edition thus. 8vo. Maroon cloth, silver stamping on front cover and spine, gray endpapers, frontis., v [1], 65 pp., preface, illustrated, acknowledgments. Fine in original glassine dust jacket, and fine original slipcase. $250.00 MCVICKER D 48. COOK 48. (20851)

A DYKES RARITY AND ONE OF A KIND

4. DOBIE, J. FRANK. THE FLAVOR OF TEXAS. Dallas: Dealey and Lowe, 1936. First edition, first state and second state dust jackets. 8vo. Salmon and tan cloth, printed in black. [12] 287 pp., frontispiece, illustrated by Alexander Hogue, This is a beautiful copy containing both dust jackets that were issued for this title. Six Guns 602 says, "Has some information on Clay Allison and other gunmen." Fine, unread copy in fine, first and second state dust jackets. Nice copies, unread, in either dust jacket are very scarce. $500.00 SIX GUNS 602. HERD 691. DOBIE p.51: "Considerable social history;" p.55: "Chapters on Bean, Green, Duval, Kendall, and other representers of the fighting Texans." DYKES, My Dobie Collection, p.8: "Hard to find and expensive" [#11 on his rarities list]. MCVICKER A5. (20964)

5. DOBIE, J. FRANK. PICTHING HORSES AND PANTHERS. Austin: Texas Folk-Lore Society, 1940. First edition. Stiff wrappers, 15pp. First edition of the first separate printing of one of the rarest of all Will James illustrated items. Misprint of the word "PITCHING" on the front cover makes this an unusual item. Fine copy. $150.00 HERD 699. 50 GREAT DUFAULT 56. MCVICKER D27. DOBIE RARITY 37. (19622)                                                    

6. DOBIE, J. FRANK [EDITED BY]. TEXAS AND SOUTHWESTERN LORE. TEXAS FOLK-LORE SOCIETY PUBLICATION NUMBER VI. Austin: Texas Folk-Lore Society, [1934]. First edition, second printing. 8vo. Cloth, gold stamping on front cover and spine, 259 pp., the editor's prerogative, illustrated, index of ballads, rhymes, and songs, general index. This Volume Number 6 of publications of the Texas Folklore Society contains Folk-lore of the Texas-Mexican Vaquero; Tales and Rhymes of a Texas Household; Lore of the Llano Estacado; Names in the Old Cheyenne and Arapahoe Territory; Nicknames in Texas Oil Fields; The Devil's Grotto; Myths of the Tejas Indians; Ballads and Songs of the Frontier Folk; several essays on cowboys songs, The Ballad of "Davy Crockett," and Songs and Ballads_Grave and Gay. Dobie contributes BALLADS AND SONGS OF THE FRONTIER FOLK. Also two contributions by J. Evetts Haley. From the library of author and historian, Donald Day and with his signature on front paste-down sheet. Very good copy. $150.00 (19808)

7. DOBIE, J. FRANK. A TEXAN IN ENGLAND. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1945. First edition. 8vo. Signed by the author. Cloth, xiii [3], 285 pp., preface, acknowledgments, index. During World War II, Dobie was invited to come to England as a guest professor of American History at Cambridge University. He reluctantly accepted the invitation. This book is comprised of Dobie's observations during his stay in England. An interesting book. Fine, bright, tight copy in fine dust jacket. $300.00  (21121)

8. DOBIE, J. FRANK. THE VOICE OF THE COYOTE. London: Hammond, Hammond & Co., Ltd., [1950]. First U.K. edition. 8vo. Fine in fine dust jacket. Probably much more scarce than the U.S. edition. $150.00   (483)

                     AN EXCEPTIONALLY FINE, BRIGHT COPY

9. BENEDICT, CARL PETERS. A TENDERFOOT KID ON GYP WATER. Introduction by J. Frank Dobie. Austin: Texas Folklore Society, 1943. First edition. 8vo. Pictorial cloth, xviii, 115 pp., frontis,, introduction, illustrated. Excellent introduction by J. Frank Dobie. Six Score 10 says, "A vividly written story of range life in west Texas in the 1890s. Benedict recounted incidents of cowpunching as they occurred and editor Dobie changed as little as possible. The result is one of the best books ever written on the Texas range." Fine, bright unread copy in fine original glassine dust jacket. Limited to 550 copies. An exceptional copy. $600.00 SIX SCORE 10. HERD 238. CAMPBELL 7. DOBIE p.111. LOWMAN 21. COOK 94 MCVICKER B48. DYKES: DOBIE COLLECTION p.15, p.9, p.29. (25038)

INSCRIBED TO RAYMOND CARLSON

10. DOBIE, J. FRANK. APACHE GOLD AND YAQUI SILVER. Boston: Little, Brown, [1954]. Later printing of the first edition. 8vo, A nice personalized inscription by Dobie to Raymond Carlson, former editor of ARIZONA HIGHWAYS MAGAZINE. Brown cloth, colored frontis, xv [1], 366 pp., illustrated, 12 plates (4 are in color), by Tom Lea, appendix, Very good in lightly rubbed dust jacket. $350.00 SIX GUNS 599: "Fascinating book on lost mines...." DYKES Lea 126. Kid 266. MCVICKER A7a[1]. (24978)

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