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Lone Cowboy. My Life Story.
by James, Will
- Used
- Very Good
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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About This Item
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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- Seller
- Aquila Books
(CA)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 132230
- Title
- Lone Cowboy. My Life Story.
- Author
- James, Will
- Format/Binding
- Undetermined
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1930
- Keywords
- American Author|American Literature|Cowboy|First Edition|James, Will|Western|Western Americana|Will James|Tad Nichols
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About the Seller
Aquila Books
Biblio member since 2010
Calgary, Alberta
About Aquila Books
Aquila Books specializes in books dealing with Polar Exploration, Western Canadiana, Mountaineering, the Canadian Pacific Railway, Early Voyages as well as many other areas. We also deal in antique maps and prints, historic photos, autograph letters, postcards, antique scientific instruments and antique bookcases. Please contact us if you have any questions.
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- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- 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....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- BOMC
- Book-of-the-Month Club These are popular books republished and sold at a discounted price by one of these many clubs, the...
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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