[Rarebooks] FS: Pierce: Texas Under Arms, offered by John Howell for Books

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Offered Today: 

PIERCE, GERALD S. 

_Texas Under Arms: The Camps, Posts, Forts, & Military Towns of the
Republic of Texas_. 

Austin, TX: Encino Press, 1969. 

8vo. 9 1/4 x 6 3/8 inches. [ii], xvi, (271) pp. Illustrated double-page
title page, index; text clean, unmarked. Half black leather, brown paper
over boards, printed paper spine label, front cover illustrated in
black, maps in end-papers; binding square and tight. Housed in a brown
paper-covered slipcase. SIGNED by Gerald Pierce, author, on limitation
statement, and William D. Wittliff, designer, on the colophon, 1969.
Fine. 

$ 125 

LIMITED EDITION of 250 copies, this is number 116. A systematic and
comprehensive delineation of the pattern of defense along the Texas
border during the 10-year-long period of the Republic of Texas. "The
heart of the book is the series of articles on the forts and military
camps near the outer limits of Anglo-American settlement in the Republic
of Texas." From the Introduction. 

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Thank you for your consideration. 

John Howell 

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