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STATE HOUSE PRESS
is proud to announce the publication of
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Cloth with dust jacket
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Limited edition, numbered signed, with slip case
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Phil Collins
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Phil Collins, best known for his work with the band Genesis, his solo musical career, and his work with Disney’s Tarzan, has turned his incredible creativity and intellect to his first book, The Alamo and Beyond: A Collector’s Journey.
When Phil Collins was a kid growing up in a London suburb, he would often watch an amazing show on his family television. There, in black and white, was Fess Parker as Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier. As he matured, Collins not only acted out the exploits of his new hero, but he often refought the Battle of the Alamo with his toy soldiers. Even though music came to dominate his life, it was this love of history — and Davy Crockett and the Alamo in particular — that was always nearby. On one musical tour, Collins encountered his first David Crockett autograph — for sale at a store called the Gallery of History. “I didn’t know this stuff was out there, that you could own it,” the rock-n-roll legend said. It had never occurred to him. Later, he received a birthday-present that would change his life: a receipt for a saddle signed by an Alamo defender. From that point forward, the drummer began building his impressive Alamo and Texas Revolution collection.
Here, for the first time in history, are the artifacts, relics, and documents that compose the Phil Collins collection, available in a beautifully-designed color book with stunning photography and crisply-rendeshot throughred illustrations. Collin’s prose takes the reader through the joys of being a collector as he lovingly describes what each piece in this impressive assemblage means to him. Photographer Ben Powell of Austin brought these items to vivid relief, and artist Gary Zaboly’s masterful pen-and-ink drawings breath life into the items. Essays by Texas historians Bruce Winders, Don Frazier, and Stephen Hardin provide the historical background to the collection and help make this into a work of art that also serves handily as a serious research tool.
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Just when you thought everything anyone could say about the Alamo had been said, author Gary S. Zaboly presents a whole new approach in his book, An Altar for Their Sons, just published by State House Press. To read more about it and about Zaboly himself, simply
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the Civil War.
We release not only Texana by contemporary authors but reprints of classic
accounts of Texas life and history otherwise inaccessible to the general
public. Our booklist also incorporates the publications of the McWhiney Foundation Press, specializing in the history of the Old South and the Civil War. In line with the overall goals of the Texas Frontier Heritage & Cultural Center™, we strive with our titles to make history accessible to as
many readers as possible. To accomplish this task, we have recruited
some of America’s leading historians and many bright new scholars. We believe firmly in narrative history, in telling a good story, and
in telling it well – without losing sight of the people who made history and
the events that changed a nation.
State House Press is proud of its reputation for high standards of scholarship
and readability. As Kent Biffle of the Dallas Morning News once said, “I never met a State House Press book I didn’t like.”
State House Press and the McWhiney Foundation Press are part of the Texas
A&M University Press Consortium, which handles retail distribution
for a number of small but distinguished publishers. Our entire list of
offerings, with pictures, summaries, prices, and easy online ordering,
is available in our section of the consortium web pages.
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