Arizona Nights
by White, Stewart Edward
- Used
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Scottsdale, Arizona, United States
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About This Item
New York: McClure, 1907. First Edition. Octavo. . Half-title, color frontispiece and 6 other color illustrations by N.C. Wyeth, 351 pages. One of the finest novels of Arizona. The author's description of the Arizona desert is striking. " Mile after mile it swept away before him, hot, dry, suffocating, lifeless.... Here and there rock ridges showed with the obscenity of so many skeletons, exposing to the hard, cruel sky the earth's nakedness. Thirst, delirium, death, hovered palpable in the wind; dreadful, unconquerable, ghastly." It is no wonder that Teddy Roosevelt loved his writing (TR also noted that Stewart Edward White was the best man with handling a gun he had ever seen). A very good copy bound in green cloth, color pictorial paste-down to upper board, spine lettering gilt, one lightly bumped corner, spine rubbed with gilt lettering to foot mostly rubbed off, no previous owner's names or bookplates.
Synopsis
The ring around the sun had thickened all day long, and the turquoise blue of the Arizona sky had filmed. Storms in the dry countries are infrequent, but heavy; and this surely meant storm.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 028716
- Title
- Arizona Nights
- Author
- White, Stewart Edward
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- McClure
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1907
- Keywords
- Arizona,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Arizona;
Terms of Sale
Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB
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About the Seller
Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB
Biblio member since 2006
Scottsdale, Arizona
About Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB
Alcuin Books located in Old Town Scottsdale is a store with 15,000 serious books for the collector or scholar. We have ample parking in front of the store for those who wish to browse our holdings.
Glossary
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- 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...
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
- 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...