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The Alamo Mission Bell. J. Evetts Haley. The Encino Press, Austin, Texas 1974 for the Nita Stewart Haley Memorial Library, Midland, Texas. A 30-page signed copy by Haley (12/25/91) in a cream colored softcover book in interesting illustrated wraps with a small tear at the right upper edge. Pages are clean and unmarked. Very Good

Austin, TX: Encino Press, 1974 Quarto (10.25 in. by 7.25 in.); 30pp.; very good hardcover; scraped front board inset; crisp; clean; bright..

Austin: Encino Press, 1974. Slipcase, leather spine & cloth, 30 pp., illus. by Schiwetz, design by Wittliff. Leather spine & cloth. #174 of 250c. SIGNED by Haley. Robinson #45c.. 1st.. Half Leather & Cloth. Fine/Boxed.

Austin: Encino Press, 1974. Slipcase, leather spine & cloth, 30 pp., illus. by Schiwetz, design by Wittliff. Leather spine & cloth. #179 of 250c. SIGNED by Haley. Robinson #45c.. 1st.. Half Leather & Cloth. Fine/Boxed.

Austin: The Encino Press, 1974., 1974. First edition. First edition. 8vo. One of 250 specially bound copies, numbered and signed by the author. This is copy 180. This copy also inscribed to noted collector Lee Milazzo: "For Lee Milazzo / who too belongs to the / traditions and ideals of / the Alamo." Publisher's quarter rawhide and burnt orange cloth with titles on a printed paper cover label and titles on the spine with embossed lettering, brownish front and rear endpapers, [8], 30 [2] pp., bronze by Melvin C. Warren and drawings by E. M. "Buck" Schiwetz. The Alamo Mission Bell was cast in 1722 for the Mission San Antonio de Valero, known as the Alamo, where it hung for many years. From there, as the story goes, it was being taken to the mission at Refugio when the cart in which it was being hauled broke down, and the bell was left beside the road near the San Antonio River. There in time some passing horseman found it a likely weight for staking his mount, but the bronc… Read More