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  • Child of the Sun

    Memories of a Philippine Boyhood

    by Lonn Taylor ...
    Historian Lonn Taylor built a career as a curator in history museums, including the Smithsonian Institution. In retirement he wrote weekly columns on the people and places of Texas, signed the “Rambling Boy,” that were distributed widely in print and on the radio.This book stands out from his numerous other books on historical and literary topics: it’s the only one he wrote about himself and the ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • Daddy-O's Book of Big-Ass Art

    by Bob Wade, Lisa Sherman, Jason Mellard, Carl Hoover, Ricardo Hernandez, Carla Ellard, Jesse Sublett, Katie Robinson-Edwards, Dan Bullock, Marsha Milam, Jim Ferguson, Bill Fitzgibbons, Chris O'Connell, Temple Boon, Jack Massing, Michael Brick, Cleve Hattersley, Shannon Wynne, Lynn Barnett, Andi Scull, Richard Holland, Will Harte, Gary Webernick, Leea Mechling, Mike Shropshire, Karen Dinitz, John Kelso, John Tinker, Lonn Taylor, Dan O'Hara, DJ Stout, Jan Reid, Dick DeGuerin, Evan Voyles, Pete Gershon, Roy Bragg, Eric O'Keefe, Kevin Williamson, Marc English, Robert Faires, Edmond Ortiz, Michael Barnes, Anne Rapp, Diana Vela, Julie Sasse, Kent Zimmerman, Michael Hoinski, David Marion Wilkinson, Joanne Leonhardt Cassullo, Bert Beveridge, Claudia Alarcón, Joe Nick Patoski ...
    Recipient of three National Endowment for the Arts grants and with works exhibited at the prestigious Biennale de Paris, New York’s Whitney Museum, the de Menil Collection in Houston, and other venues, Bob “Daddy-O” Wade started “keeping it weird” in 1961 when he arrived in Austin with his ’51 custom Ford hot rod and his slicked-back hair. Primed to study art at the University of Texas, Wade’s ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Texas Furniture, Volume Two

    The Cabinetmakers and Their Work, 1840–1880

    by Lonn Taylor, David B. Warren ...
    Series series Focus on American History Series
    The art of furniture making flourished in Texas during the mid-nineteenth century. To document this rich heritage of locally made furniture, Miss Ima Hogg, the well-known philanthropist and collector of American decorative arts, enlisted Lonn Taylor and David B. Warren to research early Texas furniture and its makers. After more than a decade of investigation, they published Texas Furniture in ... Read more

    $46.79 USD

  • Texas Furniture, Volume One

    The Cabinetmakers and Their Work, 1840-1880, Revised edition

    by Lonn Taylor, David B. Warren ...
    Series series Focus on American History Series
    The art of furniture making flourished in Texas during the mid-nineteenth century. To document this rich heritage of locally made furniture, Miss Ima Hogg, the well-known philanthropist and collector of American decorative arts, enlisted Lonn Taylor and David B. Warren to research early Texas Furniture and its makers. They spent more than a decade working with museums and private collectors ... Read more

    $43.19 USD

  • Big Bend's Ancient and Modern Past

    Edited by Bruce A. Glasrud, Robert J. Mallouf ...
    The Big Bend region of Texas—variously referred to as “El Despoblado” (the uninhabited land), “a land of contrasts,” “Texas’ last frontier,” or simply as part of the Trans-Pecos—enjoys a long, colorful, and eventful history, a history that began before written records were maintained.With Big Bend’s Ancient and Modern Past, editors Bruce A. Glasrud and Robert J. Mallouf provide a helpful ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

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  • The Phantom Killer

    by James Presley ...
    The salacious and scandalous murders of a series of couples on Texarkana's "lovers lanes" in seemingly idyllic post-WWII America created a media maelstrom and cast a pall of fear over an entire region. What is even more surprising is that the case has remained cold for decades. Combining archival research and investigative journalism, Pulitzer Prize nominated historian James Presley reveals ... Read more

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  • Making War at Fort Hood

    Life and Uncertainty in a Military Community

    by Kenneth T. MacLeish ...
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  • The Masterpieces of Thomas Chippendale - A Short Biography and His Famous Catalogue

    by Arthur Hayden ...
    This text contains a detailed, illustrated catalogue of some of Thomas Chippendale's most notable furniture designs, coupled with an informative and fascinating biography of the famous cabinet-maker. A wonderful little text that will surely appeal to those with a keen interest in Chippendale's designs and the history of vintage furniture in general, this text constitutes a worthy addition to ... Read more

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  • House of Rain

    Tracking a Vanished Civilization Across the American Southwest

    by Craig Childs ...
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