The King Ranch /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | [Saddle blanket edition]. |
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| Item Description: | Issued in a case. "...designed, printed and bound in Texas. Three thousand copies have been produced ...The cover is a facsimile of the saddle blanket woven and used on the King Ranch." - Colophon volume 1. The Cushing Library/Dykes Collection copy has the top and bottom of the pages trimmed and speckled. The Cushing Library/Kelsey Americana copy has the top and bottom of the pages trimmed and speckled. The Cushing Library/Kelsey Americana copy has 3 pieces of ephemera indicating that this copy was purchased as part of an offering through the Book Club of Texas in 1991 after original copies of the set were found at the King Ranch by archivist Bruce Cheeseman. The Cushing Library/Lowman Collection copy contains an uncut sheet of endpaper, a typewritten note with a handwritten postscript, a proof page with corrections, a wedding invitation, a handwritten presentation note on endpaper, and a typewritten presentation note, and is a gift of John C. Jacobs. |
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| Physical Description: | 2 volumes (838 pages) : illustrations, portraits, color maps, facsimiles ; 24 cm. |
| Production Credits: | Designed by Carl Hertzog. |
| Bibliography: | "Notes and sources": volume 1, pages 421-467; volume 2, pages [775]-796. |