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The Buffalo Soldiers
de John Prebble
- Usado
- very good
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Very Good/Good
- Librería
-
WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
Precio
EUR 14.15EUR 9.91
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Sobre este artículo
New York, NY: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1959 Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York. 1959. Hardcover. Stated First Edition. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good; slight shelfwear to head, tail, tips, and board bottoms. DJ: Good; NOT Price Clipped ($3.95); chipping to head; closed tear at head; wear to tips; light soiling to rear panel; light sunfading to spine. Brown patterned paper over boards with blue cloth overlay on the spine; bright gilt lettering on the spine. Clean internals; interior hinges are sound and not split. 256 pp 8vo. Ten vengeful men. A lost patrol in a pitiless pursuit across the arid hell of Comanche country. A story of the pursuit of a renegade Quahadi Comanche named Quasia by black cavalry troopers under the command of a recently-promoted brevet lieutenant, Garrett Byrne. Byrne is an Irish-born, no-nonsense type who clashes frequently with his second in command and struggles with his feelings over being placed in charge of such a squad. His troop is assigned the duty of guiding and protecting a band of reservation Comanches who want to hunt some Buffalo. Along the way, they encounter hide-hunters, a white homestead family with a mother and two small children, and a band of Indian-hunting Texas Rangers. It's a volatile mix, and sure enough disaster ensues. Garrett Byrne & his complement of black cavalry troopers deal with recalcitrant & mysteriously-motivated Comanches in Indian Territory (Oklahoma) just after the War Between The States. The tensions between all the characters --- white, 'colored', 'comanchero' or 'Indian' --- add a real bite to this story that has a power beyond its seemingly, familiar ingredients. The sudden, violent events which pepper the plot make this a ravenous feast of a short novel. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.
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Detalles
- Librería
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 014073
- Título
- The Buffalo Soldiers
- Autor
- John Prebble
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Good
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- 1st Edition
- Editorial
- Harcourt, Brace and Company
- Lugar de publicación
- New York, NY
- Fecha de publicación
- 1959
- Tamaño
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Peso
- 0.00 libras
- Palabras clave
- Buffalo Soldiers, Native Americans, Western Fiction, LT Garrett Byrne, Negro Soldiers, Comanche Indians, Plains Indians, Indian raids, Civil War veterans,
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Civil War;
Términos de venta
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
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Sobre el vendedor
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Miembro de Biblio desde 2018
WINFIELD, Kansas
Sobre Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
