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Hard Knocks: a Life Story of the Vanishing West
by Young, Harry
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- Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Moab, Utah, United States
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About This Item
Portland, OR: Wells and Company. Good. 1915. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Green marbled paper boards with brown cloth spine. Rubbed and bumped edges and corners, light soil. Spine cocked. Soil on edges, light soil on a few pages. Bookplate of San Francisco's Olympic Club on front pastedown endpaper and partial sticker removal on rear pastedown. The first free endpaper is inscribed by the author for the Olympic Club members, dated 1916. All plates present as called for, including one sketch "The author scalping a dead Sioux Indian, 1876." A memoir of life in the Plains and Black Hills, in which the author gets a lot of important things wrong. Howes Y 92. Six Guns 2466.; B&W Illustrations; 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall; 242 pp; Signed by Author .
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- Bookseller
- Back of Beyond Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 009941
- Title
- Hard Knocks: a Life Story of the Vanishing West
- Author
- Young, Harry
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- Publisher
- Wells and Company
- Place of Publication
- Portland, OR
- Date Published
- 1915
- Keywords
- Sioux
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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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- Bookplate
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- Inscribed
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- Cocked
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- Spine
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- Marbled Paper
- Decorative colored paper that imitates marble with a veined, mottled, or swirling pattern. Commonly used as the end papers or...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Edges
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