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361. [BOOK CLUB OF TEXAS]. Lot of 3 titles, including:
JACKSON, Jack. Flags Along the Coast. Charting
the Gulf of Mexico, 1519-1759: A Reappraisal. Austin:
Book Club of Texas, [1995]. xii, 225 pp., color map
frontispiece, illustrations, 65 other maps. Folio, cloth
over pictorial boards, paper label on spine. Mint in
d.j.
First edition, limited edition (350 numbered
copies). Pingenot: Winner of the Presidio La Bahia Award
of the Sons of the Republic of Texas for outstanding
research on the colonial period of Texas history. Also
winner of the TSHA Kate Brock Bates Award for 1996 as the
best book on Texas prior to 1900.
RATCHFORD, Fannie E. (editor). The Story of
Champ D’Asile as Told by Two of the Colonists.
Dallas: Book Club of Texas, [1937]. 180 [3] pp.,
colored frontispiece, 2 plates, endsheet maps. 8vo, green
cloth. Very fine in original slipcase.
Limited
edition (300 copies). Basic Texas Books 85A:
"First edition in English...This is the best contemporary
account of the ill-fated colony of Napoleonic refugees in
Texas..." Howes H270. Fifty Texas Rarities 6n.
Streeter 1069n: "An indispensable source and by far the
best." Pingenot: Printed at Santa Fe for the Book Club
of Texas by Rydal Press, a fine-press edition of a novel
first published in Paris in 1819 and based on the ill-fated
French settlement of 150 Napoleonic exiles who in 1817
established a Utopian colony on the Trinity River. When
approached by Spanish forces, the colonists fled to
Galveston where they were caught in a hurricane. With the
help of pirate Jean Lafitte, those who survived the storm
returned to Louisiana. Sister Agatha refers to the 1819
work as the first Texas novel.
TERRELL, Alexander W. From Texas to Mexico and
the Court of Maximilian in 1865. Dallas: Book Club of
Texas, 1933. xviii, 95 [1] pp., frontispiece,
illustrations. Small 4to, original gold over brown cloth,
gilt spine. Very fine.
First
edition, limited edition (200 copies). Gunn, Mexico
in American & British Letters 1085. Pingenot:
Printed by the Lakeside Press of Chicago for The Book
Club of Texas. Born in Virginia in 1827, Terrell moved with
his family to Missouri where he graduated from the state
university. He was admitted to the bar in 1849, and three
years later moved to Texas. He was elected a district judge
in 1857 and served in that capacity until resigning to join
the Confederate Army. He took part in battles in Missouri
and Arkansas and rose to the rank of Brigadier General. On
learning of Lee’s surrender, Terrell along with other
Confederates traveled to Mexico where he joined the French
Army of occupation. Appointed to the rank of colonel, he
was frequently at the Court of Maximilian. He returned to
Texas in 1866 where he became a cotton grower on the Brazos
River and later a member of the state legislature. Judge
Terrell was a contributor to the quarterly of the Texas
State Historical Association and at the time of his death
in 1912 was serving as the Association’s president. A
rare work almost unknown bibliographically.
(3 vols.)
($350-700)