West!
by Seltzer, Charles Alden
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good + +/Very Good ++
- Seller
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Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
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About This Item
New York: Grosset & Dunlap Book. Illus. by W. M. Allison. Very Good + +. Hardcover. Reprint. 8vo. 312 pp. with dust jacket and illustrations by W. M. Allison. Early Reprint, c.1920s. Popular American writer (1875-1942) of rugged Westerns novels and books about outdoor life. Born in Wisconsin, he spent much of his youth in New Mexico. Supported his family for 13 years as a carpenter and contractor whatever he could find to support his family (he was the father of newspaper editor Louis B. Seltzer). To poor to afford the paper upon which to write his stories, his wife managed to get butcher paper for his use. Most of his work was published first as serials in Argosy magazine. Price clipped with minor edgewear and slightly foxed spine and rear panel to dj. Pencilled name on ffep with slightly foxed and age-toned text block edges, else, no wear. Clean, tight and strong binding with no underlining, highlighting or marginalia. Orange cloth with black lettering and decorative horse and rider..
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- Bookseller
- West Side Book Shop, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001342
- Title
- West!
- Author
- Seltzer, Charles Alden
- Illustrator
- W. M. Allison
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good + +
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good ++
- Edition
- Reprint
- Publisher
- Grosset & Dunlap
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Keywords
- LITERATURE GENRE FICTION WESTERNS SELTZER CHARLES ALDEN 1875-1942
- Bookseller catalogs
- LITERATURE;
- Size
- 8vo
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About the Seller
West Side Book Shop, ABAA
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Ann Arbor, Michigan
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- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Poor
- A book with significant wear and faults. A poor condition book is still a reading copy with the full text still readable. Any...
- Marginalia
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- 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....
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