Title: "Texas Painters Sculptors & Graphic Artists"
A Biographical Dictionary of Artists
in Texas before 1942
Authors: John and Deborah Powers
Published: Woodmont Books, 2000, First Edition
Cloth: $125.
Condition: Mint & unused in original wraps.

"Texas Painters, Sculptors & Graphic Artists: A Biographical Dictionary of Artists in Texas Before 1942, with a forward by Ron Tyler, is the most extensive and comprehensive reference book on artists who worked in Texas before the modern era that began with World War II. Authors John and Deborah Powers include some 3,800 artists in the 606-page book, which distills a great mass of information obtained over fourteen years from archival collections, exhibition catalogs, reference works, monographs, periodicals, unpublished materials, and interviews and correspondence with living artists and relatives of deceased artists.
In addition to extensive biographical and bibliographical information, the book includes two important appendices. The first describes the more popular institutions, inside and outside Texas, where Texas artists obtained training in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The second appendix describes the more important and longer lasting museums, associations, and exhibitions around which the art life of the state centered in the years before 1942.
Dealers, collectors, historical societies, libraries, researchers, and museums have found it exceedingly difficult to piece together something about most of the artists who made up the mosaic of early Texas art. Learning about them has become much easier and simpler with the publication of Texas Painters, Sculptors & Graphic Artists."

Title: Mapping The Transmississippi West, 1540-1861
Volumes: Five in six books
Published: Grabhorn Press 1957-1963
Edition: First, limited to 1000 copies
Author: Carl I. Wheat
Price: $3,500.00
Condition: Extremely fine

Wheat, Carl Irving; "Mapping the Transmississippi West - 1540-1861". 1st edition, San Francisco, Institute for Historical Cartography, 1957-1963 folio (14 ½" x10 3/4"), 5 volumes in 6. Illustrated throughout with 364 facsimile maps, many of which are folding, color frontispieces. Bound in quarter forest green Moroccan leather effect and durable toasted ecru linen cloth, spines gilt-lettered. One of 1000 sets, all designed by the Grabhorn Press. Extremely fine, clean and unmarked.
A monumental and thoroughly tenacious work detailing our knowledge of the American West. Vol. I was printed by the Grabhorn Press; Vols. 2-5 were printed by Taylor & Taylor & James Printing from the Grabhorn design. The contents are: Vol. I: The Spanish Entrada to the Louisiana Purchase, 1540-1804; Vol. II: From Lewis and Clark to Fremont, 1804-1845; Vol. III: The Mexican War to the Boundary Survey, 1846-1854; Vol. IV: Pacific Railroad Surveys to the onset of the Civil War, 1855-1860; Vol. V (2 books): Civil War to the Geological Survey.