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8vo brown cloth covered boards w/gilt & black lettering, dj light brown w/wht-black lettering & w/pictorial front. NF/nfdj: xii + 155 pages with photographs. The story of Hallie Crawford, who in 1916 went to teach school in Presidio, across the Rio Grande from Ojinaga, Mexico. In 1918 she moved to her new home, the Stillwell Ranch w/her husband, Roy Stillwell, & adjusted to the new life-style. Her story is the story of pioneering ranching in Texas. This work is the biography of a Texas woman and the difficulties she faced when she moved to Stillwell Ranch in 1918. The ranch and its inhabitants survived two world wars, the depression, droughts, an influenza epidemic, as well as the troubles of ranching in the Big Bend country.
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I'll Gather My Geese
by Stillwell, Hallie Crawford
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In Every Pleasant Place: Ancient Egyptian Poetry
by McCoy, Raymond A., [Translator, Editor]
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First Edition. 8vo Illus wraps; VG: 40-page stapled pamphlet; previous owner's blindstamp at base of title page, Signed by author to titlepage; otherwise very good condition. cf by same author=The Gods of Tutankhamon, AND Love Songs from Tutankhamon's Egypt, both Published by Fort Lauderdale: Enchiridion Publications, 1977
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Inscribed Landscapes: Travel Writing From Imperial China/: Translated by author with annotations and introduction by Richard E. Strassberg
by Strassberg, Richard E.
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lg8vo aqua cloth, gilt spine titles, PO Prof Jack Wills signed to fep with his underlining and notes in text, ow VG/vgdj: xxv, [2] map, 580pp. Notes, Bibliography, Index, Glossary of chinchars. Illustrated paintings, portraits, maps and drawings in 64 b&w figures. An offprint copy of Prof Wills review of this book from The China Quarterly with additional afterthoughts in his handwriting is tucked in; Acclaimed as the only comprehensive collection to date in English of Chinese travel writing from the 1st-19th centuries, from Professor of Chinese at UCLA/ASSOCIATION: John E. Wills, Jr. 1936-2017, Longtime USC China Studies Professor was PO of this volume and has signed his full name to fep; this is probably the copy from which he wrote his review for The China Quarterly which is tucked in. Wills was a prolific scholar of works on relations between China and the West during the age of exploration; his book on the Ming-Qing transition period entitled 1688: A Global History. is now a classic
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