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Los Angeles, CA: Ward Ritchie Press, 1957. First Edition, First Printing. . Cloth. Very Good/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Edition, First POrinting. Hard cover 8vo in illustrated yellow cloth w/black cloth spine and gold titles. Very Good/No DJ. Gift inscription and notes front endpapers, sporadic annotations heavy notes rear endpapers. 157pp,

Westport: Greenwood Press, 1974. Reprint . Cloth. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 157pp. With Library of Congress surplus stamp on ffep, but not an ex-lib book.

Ward Ritchie Press, 1957. Good. Powell, Lawrence Clark. Books West Southwest: Essays on Writers, their Books, and their Land. Los Angeles: Ward Ritchie Press, 1957. 157pp. 8vo. Hardcover. Book condition: Good with a slightly rolled spine and bumped corners. Faint soiling to front and back boards. Previous owners names on front free end sheet. Neat underlining in blue pen and pencil with margin notes..

Los Angeles: Ward Ritchie Press, 1957. First Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good. First printing. Spine is a bit slanted, otherwise very good. (box 9)

Los Angeles: The Ward Ritchie Press, 1957. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 157 pages, slight wear. First edition in book form. Includes a chapter, Mr. Southwest on J. Frank Dobie, in which various important books of the cattle country are discussed..

Los Angeles: Ward Ritchie, 1957. First Edition . 1/4 Bnd cloth/decorative Paper. Very Good+/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 157pp.

Los Angeles: Ward Ritchie Press, 1957. First Edition in quarter brown cloth over patterned orange paper covered boards. Clean, tight and crisp. No markings. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine.

Los Angeles, CA: Ward Ritchie Press. Very Good+. 1957. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. Signed by the author on a laid-in postcard. This book is in Very Good+ condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. There is some beginning bumping to the spine ends and the bottom front corner. The text pages are clean and bright. "Lawrence Clark Powell (September 3, 1906–March 14, 2001) was a librarian, literary critic, bibliographer and author of more than 100 books. Powell "made a significant contribution to the literature of the library profession, but he also writes for the book-minded public. His interests are reflected in the subjects that recur throughout his writings; these are history and travel, especially concerning the American Southwest, rare books, libraries and librarianship, the book trade, and book collecting." " (from Wikipedia); Signed by Author .

Los Angeles: The Ward Ritchie Press , 1957. Inscribed by author on front pastedown and dated April 8, 1992. Front pastedown also has signature of previous owner in 1959. Only 2000 copies of this book were printed. Patterned paper boards have light to moderate soiling with bumped tips. Textblock fairly tight and square. . Signed by Author. First American Edition. Hardcover. Vg-/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Los Angeles.: Ward Ritchie Press., 1957.. First edition. . Decorated hard cover. . Fine copy. . Octavo. . Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition.

Los Angeles: Ward Ritchie Press, [1957] First edition. Clothbacked paterned boards. Octavo. Fine condition.

Los Angeles: The Ward Ritchie Press, 1957. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Title page illustration. Los Angeles: The Ward Ritchie Pres, 1957. First edition, one of only 2,000 copies printed. A collection of 12 essays and addresses by Lawrence Clark Powell (1906-2000), inspired by the literature of the Southwest and his own experiences in "the semi-arid land from the Pecos of New Mexico-Texas to the Salinas of California." Inscribed by Powell on the front flyleaf. Patterned paper-covered boards over a black cloth spine with gilt stamping. Faint stain to the front pastedown (the contents and boards are unaffected); otherwise very good.

Los Angeles: Ward Ritchie Press, [1957] First edition. Clothbacked boards. Octavo. Clothbacked boards. This copy presented by Anderson Ritchie and Simon, with a slip, signed by Ritchie, noting this. A little light discoloration to endpapers. Otherwise fine.

Los Angeles; (1957): The Ward Ritchie Press. First Edition. Octavo. 157pp., Signed by the author. Powell writes about Arizona's dry and wrinkled land, A Southwestern bookseller, street of the second-hand bookshops, land of fiction and more. Bound in 1/4 black cloth over decorative cloth, spine lettering gilt. A handsome near fine copy.