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[TEXAS] FISKE, M. A Visit to Texas, Being the Journal of a Traveller Through Those Parts Most Interesting to American Settlers with Descriptions of Scenery, Habits... Mobile: Woodruff, Fiske, and McGuire, 1836. Second edition. Original cloth gilt lettered on spine, cloth slipcase. 5 7/8 x 3 1/2 inches (14.5 x 9.5 cm); 262 pp. Discreet strengthening to hinges, foxing, old dampstain to rear blank and pastedown. "The account gives a fresh and interesting picture of life in Texas at that time ... The second edition has an account of the engagement at Conception, near San Antonio, by one of the participants and a very brief 'Sketch of the late war in Texas.'" (Streeter). Basic Texas Books 209; Raines, p. 210; Sabin 95133; Streeter 1155. C Estate of Arnold 'Jake' Johnson