Search Results: vaqueros and buckeroos by rojas arnold

Hall Letter Shop, 1979. Hardcover. Good. . SIGNED by author on title page. Jacket has minor wear. Foxing to textblock edges, otherwise clean.

Hall Letter Shop, 1981. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Slightly faded/worn dust jacket. 2nd edition. Inscribed by author.

Self Published, 1984. Third Edition [Revised and Enlarged]. Near fine/very good +. Expanded from 312pp. to 564pp. with new material. -- 8vo., 564 pp., textured boards, historical photographs, illustrations. -- A few small areas of wear to the outer extremities of the dust jacket. Overall Condition. "Arnold R. Rojas (1896 - 1988) has the distinction of being the most celebrated chronicler of the life and lore of California's Vaqueros. He did this in a series that he didn't start publishing until he was into his mid-50s, his first, "The California Vaqueros" in 1953. Ultimately he would publish seven books over the years, the final one being, "Vaqueros and Buckaroos" in 1979. He wrote about what he knew and loved - the life and ways of the old California vaqueros - men he rode and worked with for over fifty years...... he wrote down the memories of all those years for as he said, "These are stories as seen through the eyes of old vaqueros, they are something of the splendor of those days, for there… Read More

Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Privatley published by the author, 1979, first edition, and printed in Bakersfield; 8vo, 145 x 218mm; pp xvi, 312; bright yellow cloth gilt, the covers stamped with a pseudo leather pattern; pictorial dust wrapper with a photograph on the back of Rojas's displayng his skill in floating a horse's teeth; profusely illustrated throughout with photographs; signed by Rojas on the front fly and with two further dedications on the blank pages following - one reads "Best wishes to Pete Birkett from Ernest Morris" and illustrated with a neat drawing of a horse balking at the edge of a cliff, signed E. Morris 8-79; the other is from the actual giver and reads "Pete from June Christmas 1979"; in a chapter beginning "I met Ernie Morris, the artist ... ", this being the person of the second dedication mentioned above, an owner (Pete?) has written deprecatingly in the margin "Pompous & not a good artist. His horses and cows look posed &… Read More