HOLMAN LOT WITH THE LIMITED BUCKSKIN AND HOMESPUN
138. [HOLMAN, DAVID (printer)]. Lot of 6 titles:
CARLETON, Don E. Who Shot the Bear? J.
Evetts Haley and the Eugene C. Barker Texas History Center.
[Austin]: Wind River Press, [1984]. 31 [2] pp.,
frontispiece portrait, photographic illustrations. 4to,
original maroon cloth over patterned boards. Very fine in
lightly worn d.j.
First
edition, limited edition (#127 of 295 copies).
ERSKINE, Michael. The Diary of Robert Erskine
Describing His Cattle Drive from Texas to California
Together with Correspondence From the Gold Fields
1854-1859. Edited with Notes and Historical Introduction by
J. Evetts Haley. [Midland: David Holman for]: Nita
Stewart Haley Memorial Library, [1979]. 173 [1] pp.,
frontispiece portrait, illustrations. Tall 8vo, original
pictorial linen. Very fine in original mylar d.j.
First
edition, limited edition (975 copies). Illustrated with
images from the Army exploration reports, California letter
sheets, etc.
HOLMAN, David (compiler). Letters of Hard Times
in Texas 1840-1890. Austin: Beacham (William R.
Holman), 1974. 56 [1] pp., title vignette. 4to, original
cloth over marbled boards on special paper, printed label
on spine. Minor blemish to front cover corner, but a fine
copy. Colophon page signed by David Holman.
First
edition, limited edition (#60 of 295 copies; 1 of 120
copies of large format design). Introduction by Joe
B. Frantz. Fine press book containing an interesting series
of letters from Texas during the last half century of the
frontier period, drawn from a broad cross-section of
would-be Texans and disenchanted Texans. The letters,
including some from Isaac Van Zandt, were written between
1841 and 1889.
HOLMAN, David and Billie Persons. Buckskin and
Homespun: Frontier Texas Clothing, 1820-1870. Austin:
Wind River Press, 1979. 130 pp., text drawings and tipped
in illustrations, fabric samples. Tall 4to, original dark
calf spine with woven beige and white cloth boards. Very
fine.
First
edition, limited edition ("deluxe variant" of 50
copies, numbered and signed by David Holman). Pingenot:
This handsomely printed book is the only major study on
the evolution of the frontier dress in Texas. An
outstanding Southwestern fine press book, exhibiting taste
and originality in design and with a genuine scholarly
contribution. The limited edition, with 13 swatches of
actual nineteenth-century pioneer Texas homespun tipped in,
sold out upon publication. This copy, which is unnumbered,
is labeled "deluxe variant" and signed by David Holman.
Unlike the 50 numbered copies, this copy along with a few
others is actually bound in nineteenth-century homespun.
Laid in is a letter from bookseller Michael Heaston
relating Holman’s account of how these cloth samples
were acquired. These variant copies were reserved for the
authors, their family, and a few friends. These variants
are unique and destined to appreciate even more than the
much sought after numbered limiteds.
LOWMAN, Al. Printing Arts in Texas. [Austin]: Roger Beacham Publisher, 1975. 107 pp., profusely illustrated by Barbara Holman. Tall folio, cloth with printed paper label. A mint copy of a beautiful book.
GARZA, José, Angel Navarro, et
al. Troubles in Texas, 1832: A Tejano Viewpoint from
San Antonio.... Austin: Wind River Press, 1983. viii,
60 pp., endpaper maps, facsimiles. Small 4to, original
patterned boards, cloth spine, paper label. Mint.
First
edition in English, limited edition (400 numbered
copies signed by the editor and the translator); annotated
facsimile reprint of the original edition published in
Brazoria, Texas in 1833. Printed by David Holman for
the DeGolyer Library. Translated by Conchita Hassell Winn
and David J. Weber. Streeter, Texas 37n (locating
only his copy of the original edition, now at Yale; SMU
also has a copy): "This important state paper...is a
vigorous statement of the ills from which Texas was
suffering because of the alleged neglect and indifference
of the central government with fourteen specific demands
for relief."
(6 vols.)
($1,600-2,200)