Bob's Book Journey
1802 Richcreek,
Austin,
TX 78757 USA
512-454-2355
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$25.00 Description: Good. Softcover, brown comb binding (plastic spiral), 366 pp. First Edition stated on title page. Moderate wear, no owner names or gift notes clean text, tight binding. Read More
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The Bobbsey Twins in a Radio Play $12.00 Description: Very Good in Good jacket. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. Green boards with black pictorial and lettering, illustrated endpapers, frontis., 212 pp., full-color illustrated jacket. Moderate wear at ends of spine, no owner names or gift notes, text is age-toned otherwise unmarked, tight binding. Jacket has a moisture mark on the spine and tiny chips at either end, also small chips at corner tips, front panel image of boy and girl in floral setting is in nice condition. Read More
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$25.00 Description: Near Fine. Softcover, 69 pages, b/w photos and drawings. Minor scratch on rear cover, otherwise minimal wear, clean text, tight binding. Contents include Steel, Middle East, Sword, Wootz Steel, Pattern Welding, Japanese Sword, Tungsten Carbide. Damacus steel is a hot-forged steel used in Middle Eastern swordmaking from about 1100 to 1700 A.D. Damascus swords were of legendary sharpness and strength, and were apocryphally claimed to be able to cut through lesser quality swords and even rock. Read More
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$16.00 Description: Very Good- No Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Blue boards, white spine, gilt lettering, deckle edges; top edge gilt, 141 pp., 4 pen-and-ink illustrations by J. F. Knott. Moderate wear with slight fading on spine, unmarked, tight binding. A humorous re-telling of Homer's account of the Trojan War. Read More
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Logistic Support (Vietnam Studies) $25.00 Description: Very Good. Green paperback with four soldiers on front cover and truck convoy on rear cover, xvi, 273 pp., photos, maps, charts. Light wear with sunned spine, previous owner's name on top edge of front cover, clean text, tight binding. Relates in specific terms what logisticians did and how they did it in supporting American and allied combat troops in Vietnam. Read More
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A Heap O' Livin'; Along Life's Highway $12.00 Description: Very Good. No Jacket. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. Two poetry collections in one volume. A Heap o' Livin' (1916), 192 pp., plus Along Life's Highway (1933), 186 pp., index of first lines for both collections. Brown pebbled leatherette boards with gold-color lettering. Light wear on ends of spine, lettering on front board is bright, lettering on spine is very sunned and faded, gift note dated 1939 on front free endpaper, clean text, tight binding. Read More
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Mirrors, Mice, & Mustaches: a Sampling of Superstitions & Popular Beliefs in Texas $20.00 Description: Very Good. Brown paperback with black and red lettering and red roadrunner image on front and rear covers, xiv, 110 pp. Paisano Books [series] Number One. Faint stray pen mark on front cover, otherwise mild wrear, no owner names or gift notes, clean text, tight binding. "For the purpose of this particular book, I intentionally picked out from the total collection of over 6, 000 items only those which to my knowledge have not yey appeared in print in Texas and those that seemed to be of most ... Read More
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Sam Bass and His Horse Marines: the Round Rock Shootout 1878 (the Texas Outlaw Series) (Volume 1) $700.00 Description: Near Fine. Softcover, unpaginated [350 pp] Over 140 years ago, Sam Bass, the most notorious outlaw in Texas met his fate in Round Rock, Texas at the age of 27, as he as and his horse marines were preparing to rob the William County Bank. He died from his wounds at the hands of Texas Rangers after a shoot-out. Sam Bass remains the best known of all Texas bad men, and the best liked. Even Round Rock, Texas named a major road through the city after him. Many writers label him the Robin Hood of ... Read More
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Tree Houses: an Illustrated Essay on the Aesthetic & Practical Aspects of Arboreal Architecture $12.95 Description: Very Good. Paperback with full-color covers, 48 pp., b/w drawings, plans. Light wear, text has age-toned otherwise unmaeked, tight binding. "To be in a tree house is to be inside and yet outside, to be free and yet protected, to be up in the air and yet rooted, held." Read More
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