[Rarebooks] FS: Sims, Cowpokes, Nester, & So Forth from John Howell for Books

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Offered today: SIGNED, limited edition of Judge Sims' recollections of
life in West Texas. 

SIMS, JUDGE ORLAND L. (1881-1973). 

_Cowpokes, Nesters, & So Forth_. 

Austin, TX: The Encino Press, 1970. 

8vo. 9 1/4 x 6 1/2 inches. [ii], xii, (299) pp. Black-and-white
photographs throughout; text clean, unmarked. Gilt-stamped half brown
leather, raised bands, white cloth sides; binding square and tight.
Housed in an illustrated slip case. SIGNED by the author on limitation
statement. Fine. 

$ 125 

LIMITED EDITION of 250 copies, this is number 148. Judge Sims was a
rancher in Texas who grew up on his family's ranch. Here he tells the
stories of his own and his neighbor's lives in West Texas. "I personally
knew many of the characters, and witnessed the scenes and events herein.
The rest were related to me, first hand, by my father or other
old-timers whom I know to be reliable." Sims, from the Preface. 

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John Howell 

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