Timber Line: A Story of Bonfils and Tammen
by Gene Fowler
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good +/Good
- Seller
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WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
Item Price
€7.47€5.23
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About This Item
Garden City, NY: Blue Ribbon Books, 1940 Blue Ribbon Books, Garden City, NY. 1940. Hardcover. Reprint edition. Book is tight, square, and unmarked but for F/O names and reading dates on the front pastedown and FFFP. Book Condition: Good +; light shelfwear to head, tail, tips and board bottom edges; scatter splash marks on the boards. DJ: Good; NOT Price Clipped ($1.00); wear to spine shoulders and flap folds; missing pieces along the top edges of DJ. Blue cloth boards and spine with bright orange lettering on the spine with author signature on the front board. Clean internals. Inner hinges are sound and not split. 480 pp 8vo. This is the story of a speculator and a bartender who teamed together to run the Denver Post, one of the most sensational and profitable newspapers n America. For 40 years they ruled the Rocky Mountain region, bludgeoning their enemies with incredible promotions and reaping in huge profits from an assortment of enterprises that ranged from owning circuses to uncovering the Teapot Dome scandal. This book about them is biography, history, and an adventure story all in one. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 016875
- Title
- Timber Line: A Story of Bonfils and Tammen
- Author
- Gene Fowler
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good +
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint Edition
- Publisher
- Blue Ribbon Books
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, NY
- Date Published
- 1940
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- Denver Post, newspapers, Colorado newspapers, Teapot Dome, President Harding, Bonfils, Tammen, circus owners, F.H. Bonfils, H.H. Tammen, Colorado History,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biographies; Americana;
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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- Spine
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- Tail
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- Reprint
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- Shelfwear
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- Brodart
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- Cloth
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.