Titles starting with X from Glenn Books

Lugduni (Lyon): Apud Haered Seb. Gryphii, 1558. Two leather spine labels, raised bands. Double gilt fillet borders on covers. Front joint weak but intact. All edges red. Marbled endpapers. Old armorial book-plate and Foyle's bookseller tag on front pastedown.Two previous owner's ink signatures on a preliminary page, dated 1752 and 1836. Tear in top corner on that same preliminary page with 1/2" paper loss. Title-page with griffin vignette. (See photos). Floriated first letters of chapters. Wat... more information

Chicago: The Lakeside Press, 1929. Top front corner bumped. No cloth loss at any place on covers or spine. Longhorn vignette on front cover in gilt and spine gilt remains bright. Top edge gilt. Contaians sixty-four illustrations including the frontispiece map. Folding map of the XIT Ranchlands is crisp and clean. This was the author's FIRST BOOK. Adams Herd calls it one of the best books about a Texas ranch. A lawsuit required most of the original edition to be recalled and suppressed, so the remaining ... more information