Terry's Texas Rangers
Austin: [Von Boeckman-Jones Co.], 1911. First edition. 8vo, 18x13cm, [5], 105pp. Brown cloth, upper board stamped in gilt. Boards bumped and worn at corners, sympathetically and expertly rebacked with brown cloth. Former owner's bookplate to front pastedown, endpaper stained, just a couple instances of unobtrusive underlining in the text else a very good copy. Housed in a custom brown cloth slipcase.
First edition of this memoir of the 8th Texas Cavalry Regiment under Colonel Benjamin Franklin Terry of the Confederate States Army. The regiment was active for four years and fought in roughly 275 engagements. The author, Leonidas Banton Giles (1841-1922) was wounded in the Battle of Rowlett's Station, the same engagement in which Terry was killed. A very scarce Civil War book and important piece of Texana.
Jenkins Basic Texas Books 75. Howes G168.
. Item #6908
Price: $1,500.00