Baca's Battle
by Beckett, V. B
- Used
- Condition
- Fine in Very Good dust jacket
- Seller
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Moab, Utah, United States
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About This Item
Houston, Texas: Stagecoach Press. Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1962. Limited Edition. Pamphlet. Small pamphlet; dust jacket contains black text with illustration by José Cisneros in adobe ink on cream paper; one small scuff mark each on front and back cover, else fine. Book covers are textured embossed cream paper with decorative design in adobe ink surrounding black lettering. Inscription by publisher in blue ink on first free end paper: "For Mrs. Margarite Grillo, with best wishes! - Jack D. Rittenhouse"; interior book clean w/ tight binding. Handset type edition limited to 800 copies. This pamphlet contains two accounts of the famous 1884 New Mexico gunfight, in which Elfego Baca withstood a siege by 80 cowboys and lived to tell the tale. One account printed in this pamphlet is a news story published a few days after the fight; the other is a short account by Elfego Baca himself. ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 30 pp .
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- Seller
- Back of Beyond Books (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 023474
- Title
- Baca's Battle
- Author
- Beckett, V. B
- Format/Binding
- Pamphlet
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in Very Good dust jacket
- Edition
- Limited Edition
- Publisher
- Stagecoach Press
- Place of Publication
- Houston, Texas
- Date Published
- 1962
- Keywords
- Elfego Baca, New Mexico, Old West
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Back of Beyond Books
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Moab, Utah
About Back of Beyond Books
Located in the heart of the desert southwest Back of Beyond Books is an indie bookstore in Moab, Utah. The name of the store was drawn from one of Edward Abbey's most well-known fiction titles, The Monkey Wrench Gang. We specialize in natural history, environmental literature, southwestern guidebooks & maps, Native American books, and Western history. But we also carry a wild assortment of fiction, science, philosophy, current affairs, rare books, and generally other cool stuff.
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