Add this copy of A Pride of Kin to cart. $10.28, very good condition, Sold by Bookmarc's rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from La Porte, TX, UNITED STATES, published 1985 by Texas A&M University Press.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. AY4-A first edition (stated) hardcover book SIGNED by Callie Coe Wilson and Ellen Walker Rienstra on the half-title page in very good condition in very good dust jacket. Dust jacket has some wrinkling, chipping and crease on the edges, some scattered scratches, rubbing, scuffing and light stains, tanning and light shelf wear. Book has some bumped corners and cover edgewear, darkened front endpaper, tanning and light shelf wear. 9"x5.75", 92 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. "They have a staying quality, these Hookses, that I can only describe as haunting. They have inhabited my imagination all my life, inexplicable ghosts, to be exorcised only by that bit of magic that created them in the first place, the turn of a phrase." Thus Callie Coe Wilson introduces us to her family of inveterate tale tellers, the expansive and eccentric Hooks clan of Hardin County, Texas. Wilson and her cousin Ellen Walker Rienstra capture in this unusual family saga the essence of why families take such delight in the stories of their ancestors. We see William "Pap" Hooks, legendary progenitor of the numerous clans, plowing his fields in his shirttail because "he disliked the constrictions of conventional dress and...refused to be encumbered by custom." We hunt black bear in the Big Thicket with Ben and Bud, confronting the enraged bear that once grabbed the end of Bud's gun in its teeth. We marvel at Ben's fiddle rendition of "Cattle in the Canebrake, " recorded with a cactus needle. Ben, the shrewdest of Pap's many sons, is said to have made three separate fortunes: one in whiskey, one in lumber, and one in oil. In 1904 he brought in the Saratoga oil field in East Texas with just small hand pumps, a hand-bolted derrick, and a passel of friends and brothers. There are also fleet-footed Gus, "unconventional to the point of being perverse"; khaki-clad Arden, the family's principal raconteur; and Bryant Coe, who declined an invitation to a family dinner party because he "could not find his other sock." In a unique blend of two voices, Wilson and Rienstra sing the ballads of their forebears, who not only settled Harding County but largely populated it. Each from her own perspective, but with both perspectives formed by the same family traditions, the cousins memorialize the exploits of the celebrated Hookses. Their stories are true-with the truth that is "the patina that forms in time on fact." They illustrate and celebrate the passage of time, the permanence of memory, and the melding of separate lives into an acceptable family tradition.
Add this copy of A Pride of Kin (Wardlaw Books) to cart. $11.35, like new condition, Sold by Hawking Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Edgewood, TX, UNITED STATES, published 1985 by Texas A&M University Press.
Add this copy of Pride of Kin (Hooks Family-Texas) to cart. $12.00, very good condition, Sold by Looking for Books? rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Corpus Christi, TX, UNITED STATES, published 1985 by Texas A&M University Press.
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Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 089096226X. Book is clean and tight. Small amount of wear along top of dust jacket. Story of Hooks family of Hardin County, Texas.; Wardlaw Books; 8.82 X 5.77 X 0.68 inches; 92 pages.
Add this copy of A Pride of Kin to cart. $14.00, like new condition, Sold by Mark Post Bookseller rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from San Francisco, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1985 by Texas A&M University Press.
Add this copy of A Pride of Kin to cart. $15.00, very good condition, Sold by David H. Gerber Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Austin, TX, UNITED STATES, published 1985 by Texas A&M University Press.
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Very Good+ in Very Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Inscribed and Signed By the Author xii, 92pp----Inscribed and signed by Ellen Walker Rienstra on half-title----
Add this copy of A Pride of Kin (Wardlaw Books) to cart. $17.75, very good condition, Sold by Books From California rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Simi Valley, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1985 by Texas A&M University Press.
Add this copy of A Pride of Kin (Wardlaw Books) to cart. $17.82, good condition, Sold by Books From California rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Simi Valley, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1985 by Texas A&M University Press.
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Good in good dust jacket. First Edition. first edition book, light amount of wear on the dust jacket (fading), light amount of wear along the edges of the cover of the book Very Clean Copy-Over 500, 000 Internet Orders Filled.
Add this copy of A Pride of Kin (Wardlaw Books) to cart. $42.46, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Santa Clarita, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1985 by Texas A&M University Press.
Add this copy of A Pride of Kin (Wardlaw Books) to cart. $72.86, new condition, Sold by Just one more Chapter rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Miramar, FL, UNITED STATES, published 1985 by Texas A&M University Press.
Add this copy of A Pride of Kin (Wardlaw Books) to cart. $98.50, new condition, Sold by GridFreed rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from San Diego, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1985 by Texas A&M University Press.
