[William Williston Heartsill]. John H. Jenkins. The Most Remarkable Texas Book: An Essay on Heartsill’s 1491 Days in the Confederate Army, with a Leaf from the Original Printing. Austin: Pemberton Press, 1980. Small folio. First Limited Edition, numbered 51 of 64.

Original half morocco and tan cloth. Jenkins, Basic Texas Books, 89B; Harwell, In Tall Cotton​​​​​​, 86; Howes H380; Nevins I, p. 102; Raines, p. 111; Winkler-Friend 3778. 

A finely published essay by renowned Texas historian and bookdealer John H. Jenkins on the "most remarkable Texas book" - the homemade publication of Texas veteran William Williston Heartsill's war-time journal Fourteen Hundred and 91 Days in the Confederate Army. Included with the essay is a single leaf from the original first edition comprising pages 169 & 170. Jenkins notes in Basic Texas Books that the page was "taken from a fragment of the first edition discovered in May, 1941, by Charles F. Heartman, who gave it to E.W. Winkler, from whose estate it was purchased by Franklin Gilliam and sold to Jenkins in 1975." (89). 

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