A New Industry, or Raising the Angora Goat and Mohair for Profit...

BLACK, WILLIAM L., A New Industry, or Raising the Angora Goat, and Mohair, for Profit... Fort Worth: William Black, 1900. 486pp.+index. Green cloth boards with gilt to spine and label on front board. Gilt label transferred from cover of original binding. Inscribed by the author. Minor staining. Very good. 

First edition.   The inscription reads "Compliments of the Author." A comprehensive work on the Texas angora goat industry, illustrated with numerous handsome halftones of various goats. With discussions on the goat's production for both hair and meat, as well as the spread of the industry across the United States.