Buckskin and Homespun: Frontier Texas Clothing, 1820-1870
Austin: Wind River Press, 1979.
First Edition. Hardcover. very good-. Number 46 of 50 deluxe copies signed by David Holman and bound in hand-woven cotton cloth. Folio, 130 pp + 7 unnumbered leaves to which are affixed 13 actual cloth samples. Previous owner's signature on front free endpaper, stain at bottom edge of front pastedown and free endpaper, otherwise internally clean. Fraying to cloth at corners, pale stain from liquid splash visible on rear board, spine leather rubbed through at head, scuffed, and with some uneven discoloration (darkening). About very good. Important work on the evolution of clothing in nineteenth century Texas. As described in the foreword by Stanley Marcus, "this study is significant not only as a survey of what men and women wore during the frontier days of Texas, but as an explanation of how and why certain articles of apparel originated. It demonstrates the strong human desire for ornamentation and decoration that has existed from the beginning of civilization."
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Price: $350.00