Blossoms of Steel
by Pablo White
- Used
- near fine
- Paperback
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/No Jacket
- Seller
-
WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
Item Price
€14.09€9.86
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Artesia, NM: Self-Published, 1995 Self-Published, Artesia, NM. 1995. Softcover/Trade Wraps. First Edition. Signed by the author on the half-title page. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Near Fine; slight bumping of tips on front edges. No DJ. Pictorial wraps. Wraps are not bent or folded; spine is not creased or split. 220 pp. A work of oil-field fiction. The humor, the sadness, the danger, and the techniques. The excitement of a new discovery and the courage to move on after the dry holes. Read along, invest your money and hope the drilling break happens. Maybe the bit will spin into payday for you. Read along and you might get beyond the rough stuff and feel the softer inside of the folks in the grease patch. As you read- listen- yo will hear the big break out tongs singing to the Blossoms of Steel. A very presentable and clean copy.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001583
- Title
- Blossoms of Steel
- Author
- Pablo White
- Format/Binding
- Soft cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Self-Published
- Place of Publication
- Artesia, NM
- Date Published
- 1995
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- OIL DRILLING, DRILLING IN NM, ARTESIA NM FIELDS, ROUGHNECK LIFE, PATCH, ROUGHNECKS, TOOL PUSHERS, ROUSTABOUTS, MUD, RIGS
- Bookseller catalogs
- New Mexico Related;
Terms of Sale
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or in the unfortunate event, damaged. All books are packed and wrapped with care to avoid shifting during shipment and edge/tip strikes during the mailing process.
About the Seller
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Biblio member since 2018
WINFIELD, Kansas
About 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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