Basic Texas Books, an Annotated Bibliography of Selected Works for a Research Library

Austin; (1983): Jenkins Publishing Co. And the Pemberton Press. Limited Editioin. Thick Quarto. Limited to only 65 copies. The present copy is number III, signed by author John Jenkins and designer William R. Holman.648 pp. illustrated, with an appendix which includes a checklist of Texas bibliographies. The plan of this guide is to give bibliographical details on every known printing and variant of each of the works included, followed by a critical discussion encompassing what others have said about the book, what the author thought of the book, what he has been able to find out about the writing of the book, the background of the author, the strengths (truncated) and weaknesses of each text, occasional representative quotations from the text and citations to other bibliographical references. An exceptionally fine copy bound in blue cloth, blue leather spine label lettered and ruled in gilt, housed within publisher's cloth covered slipcase. (Inventory #: 023635)