433. [WITTLIFF, WILLIAM]. Lot of 6 titles:
DALLAS PUBLIC LIBRARY. The Spanish Southwest:
An Exhibit at the Dallas Public Library, June 15-July 2,
1971. [Austin: Encino Press, 1971]. Illustrations. Near
mint. Small oblong 8vo, mustard-colored wrappers with
printed paper label.
First
edition. Preface by Tom Lea. Lutz A57b. Whaley
79. Pingenot: An exhibit of 31 rare books and documents,
in the D.P.L.’s collection, or on loan from other
institutions and private collections, that highlight
Spanish discovery, exploration, and settlement in what is
now the southwestern United States.
HUNTER, Robert Hancock. The Narrative of Robert
Hancock Hunter.... Austin: Encino Press, 1968. vii, 27
pp., frontispiece portrait of Hunter by Wittliff. 8vo,
original brown cloth over light tan pictorial boards. Very
fine in original mylar d.j.
First
edition, limited edition (# 193 of 640 copies). Whaley,
Wittliff 18.
LEA, Tom. A Selection of Paintings and Drawings
from the Nineteen-Sixties. The University of Texas
Institute of Texan Cultures at San Antonio, December 6,
1969—January 17, 1970. Oblong 8vo, brown cloth over
ivory printed boards. Slipcase. Signed by Lea, Ransom,
Lowman and Wittliff.
Limited edition (#65 of 200
copies).
LEA, Tom. A Selection of Paintings and Drawings
from the Nineteen-Sixties. The University of Texas
Institute of Texan Cultures at San Antonio, December 6,
1969—January 17, 1970. Small 4to, original ivory
printed wrappers.
Trade
edition.
SANTA ANNA, Antonio Lopez de. The Eagle: The
Autobiography of Santa Anna. Austin: Jenkins Publishing
Company, 1967. Frontispiece, illustrations, with an
original broadside issued by Santa Anna as President of
Mexico. Large 8vo, half-calf and pictorial cloth. Mint in
publisher’s slipcase.
First edition in
English of Santa Anna’s memoirs including his version
of the Texas Revolution and the Mexican War. Limited
edition (#CXVII of 135 copies numbered and signed by
Crawford, with an original broadside announcing one of
Santa Anna’s presidential decrees), designed by
William Wittliff and edited by Ann Fears Crawford. Whaley
26. Pingenot: Using his autobiography, the editor has
assembled the controversy-clouded tale of Santa Anna’s
private life. She has supplemented his journal with
extensive notes from material collected in Mexico’s
National Archives and authentic accounts by Mexicans and
Texans. A beautiful book, this volume adds substantially to
our knowledge of the eleven-time president of
Mexico.
WITTLIFF, William D. Vaquero, Genesis of the
Texas Cowboy: A Photographic Essay. San Antonio:
Institute of Texan Cultures, 1972. Plates. Small oblong
8vo, wrappers. Mint in pictorial d.j.
First
edition, with an introduction by Joe B. Frantz. Whaley
99. Pingenot: A photo-essay of a working cattle ranch in
northern Mexico where old-time methods were still being
used. Although not mentioned in the text, the pictures were
shot on the Tule Ranch in the state of Coahuila some eighty
miles south of the border.
(6 vols.)
($200-475)