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Lone Cowboy. My Life Story.
de James, Will
- Usado
- Muy bueno
- Estado
- Muy bueno
- Librería
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Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1930. Undetermined. very good. 1st edition, in Orange variant DJ. 431 [2 pages with drawings]pp. Octavo. Green cloth with gilt lettering on spine and front cover (lettering is lightly worn on spine). Black illustration of a horse and cowboy on front of board. Some wear and bumping to ends of spine and corners. Some very light discolouration to endpapers. B/W portrait frontis. Black and white illustrations throughout. Clean, tight text block with only some mild discolouration to outer edge. Long outer edge of text block roughly trimmed. In orange dust jacket, not price clipped. The jacket is worn at edges with some creasing, small closed tears and mild chipping. There are 2 half inch closed tears at top front of jacket and a small chip missing from the spine (in the middle closer to the back). The jacket is lightly soiled and rubbed on the back, with fading to spine. The colour of the jacket, 2.75$ price and NY Herald Tribune quote perhaps signify that this is a BOMC first edition variant of the jacket. Altogether a very nice copy. very good Frazier PG 40. Illustrated by the author. A true first edition as signified by the Scribner's A. Will James was a cowboy, cattle rustler, beloved author and artist of the American West. The book is inscribed on the title page to Tad Nichols "greatfully received from Dot Viets". Tad Nichols photographed and studied Glen Canyon in southeastern Utah from 1950 through 1963, when it was flooded to create Lake Powell. 1930
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- Librería
- Aquila Books
(CA)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 132230
- Título
- Lone Cowboy. My Life Story.
- Autor
- James, Will
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Undetermined
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Muy bueno
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Editorial
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 1930
- Palabras clave
- American Author|American Literature|Cowboy|First Edition|James, Will|Western|Western Americana|Will James|Tad Nichols
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- Title Page
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- Jacket
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- Octavo
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- BOMC
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- 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...
- Spine
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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- 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...
- First Edition
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