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No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, dusty page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket price clipped but not marked with small tears and light creasing to upper and lower edges. 224pp. This story of the forty-niners in the old wild west is based on the reminiscences of the author's grandfather who was one of them. It is an exciting narrative and ends with the author visiting him in his Yorkshire farmouse. Undated ca 1950s.
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers, crease to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 204pp. The ideas associated with the concept of postmodernity explaining the transformation of the personal and public worlds of contemporary Western society.
535p. frontis. Tales of the Frontier" series Hardcover Very good conditon
pp. xviii, 304. Movie edition: The dust jacket and end papers have scenes from the movie, Cecil B. DeMille's THE PLAINSMAN, with Gary Cooper as Wild Bill Hickok (and Jean Arthur with a whip). Stamped ownership of Ross Bosley on first fly leaf. 8vo. Original full orange cloth binding. Original color pictorial dust jacket, clipped and slightly rubbed. Hardbound. Very good. W6
pp. xxii, 460. Top edge lightly foxed. Softcover. Penguin Classics paperback. Very good. W1
Book is in excellent condition with minor shelf wear only. Binding is solid and square, exterior shows light wear only with creaseless covers and spine, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. The glue in this perfect bound book is over 50 years old and is likely fragile.
32 p. Double column. Paper browning but not brittle. Softcover. 190 mm. Original tri-color printed pictorial wraps. Covers very slightly soiled. Volume One, Number seven. Very good. Edward Lytton Wheeler (1854-1885) was a professional 'Sensational Novelist' whose "Deadwood Dick" was the most popular hero of the dime novel era at the end of the 19th century. Through 'Dick' he greatly influenced boys (and men) to view the West as eternally exciting and heroic. W8RtRear
289 pages. Bibliography, glossary and index. Footnotes. Charts, maps and diagrams. Topics include: English Migration; Folk Architecture in Trinity Bay; Peopling of Central Bonavista Bay; Sealing and the spread of settlement in Northeastern Newfoundland; Initial permanent settlement in the Strait of Belle Isle; Ethnic diversity and settler location on the Eastern Lower North Shore of Quebec; Highlands Scots Migration to Southwestern Newfoundland; Settlers and Traders in Western Newfoundland. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Book
pp. [12] + 32 leaves Joe Belt's wonderful drawings of the West, cowboys, and Native Americans. Oblong 4to. Original two towned full cloth binding, with an exmple of Joe Belt's autograph in gilt. Good. Many of the drawings would look very niced framed. W14 Rt
Beautiful embossed decorative cover in silver and maroon. Both front and rear hinges loose, showing underlayer of binding mesh. Wear and fraying at top and bottom of spine. Previous owner's name. 220 pages, plus publisher's advertising section. Black and white illustrations.
pp. xxxi, 472. Top edge lightly foxed. Softcover. Penguin Classics paperback. Very good. W1
8vo., First Edition, with photographs in the text; pictorial wrappers, a very good, bright, clean copy.
Books are in excellent condition, two volume hardback set with brown covers, gilt print at spine. Bindings are solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exteriors show no blemishes, text/interiors are clean and free of marking of any kind except for previous owner's stamps at front end paper or near front. Vol. I ,382 pages, Vol. II, 249 pages. Translation from Syriac with notes and intro by Ernest A. Wallis Budge: keeper of the Assyrian & egyprian antiquities in the british museum. Text is in English.
Hardcover quarto in brown, paded faux leather covers with gilt title to spine. 199 pages ; 24 cm Series: Louis L'Amour collection; || Contents: The outlaws of Mesquite -- Love and the Cactus Kid -- The ghost maker -- The drift -- No rest for the wicked -- That packsaddle affair --Showdown on the Tumbling T -- The sixth shotgun. || Abstract: Eight vintage stories of the Old West chronicle the adventures of Marshal Lou Morgan, Leo Carver, the Cactus Kid, and other tough heroes, accompanied by notes on western history and lore. || Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.) -- Fiction. Western stories.
199p. Hardcover Very good condition good
630 pages. Some colour plates. "Western cooking has become a mosaic of some of the best cuisines of the world... Dedicated to the culinary lifestyle which has emanated from a unique cultural diversity of preparation and tastes of universal foods." - from Introduction. Unmarked with light wear. Tight and square. A quality copy of this very substantial work. Book
pp. xii, 244 + Frontis, Color Map and full page plates. Paste downs and fly leaves stained from unusual dust jacket. 8vo. Original linen binding decorated with drawings of Conestoga wagons. Original coarse grained paper dust jacket. Small loss at head and tail of spine. Slight loss at corners and rear wrap. Spine darkened. OREGON TRAIL is third in the series of main-highway guidebooks prepared by the Federal Writers' Project. Hardbound. Very good. The Federal Writers' Project was one of five independent branches of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) established in the summer of 1935 by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Unlike the Civilian Conservation Corps (1932), where young men worked on roads, bridges, and dams, the Works Progress Administration employed non-construction workers, as well as laborers. In Oregon, the Federal Writers' Project was the most visible white-collar agency of the WPA." - The Oregon Encyclopedia. W11
pp. vi, 328 + Full page color drawings by Thomas Hart Benton. Bookplate. 8vo. Original full cloth binding. Original dust jacket, chipped and torn. Book Club Edition. Hardbound. Very good. W11
pp. xxii, 297 + full page color plates of American Indians, Buffalo hunting and Mountain Men by Maynard Dixon. Numerous text drawings printed in red. Top edge red. Tall 8vo. Original full linen binding. Front cover and spine decorated in reds and browns. Original slip case. Slip case has a worm hole and the book has a small hole throughout the copy. Hardbound. A beautifully printed and affordable version of the original Limited Editions Club publication. THESE HERITAGE PRESS BOOKS MAKE GREAT GIFTS. W82
Beautiful little book bound in brown leather. Worn edges and slightly loose binding. Gilt edges. Loose ribbon bookmark. 2 3/4"w x 3 7/8"h.
8vo., First Edition, with plates; rose boards, black cloth back lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
pp. x, 354 p. Drawings by Nick Eggenhofer. Signed by the author. Small 4to. Original full cloth binding, corners bumped. Original dust jacket, clipped. Spine sun faded. First Printing. Hardbound. Very good. Six-Guns 12; 50 Great Western Illustrators, Eggenhofer 18. Wonderful descriptions and insights about the "real" life of the western cowboy. W5
No Jacket--as Issued Hardcover, good condition, w. ltly rubbed brds, a few lt scratches. Smwht slanted, v. ltly compressed sp, lt reading crease. V. ltly bumped corners. Ltly tanned p. edges. A few ltly tanning pp. Cln, tight, unmarked.
No Jacket--as Issued Hardcover, good condition, w. lightly rubbed brds--a few lt marks. 2 lt dents on fr brd. Smwht slanted, v. ltly compressed sp, lt reading crease. V. ltly bumped corners. Ltly tanned p. edges. Creaky fr hinge. A few ltly tanning pp. Cl
No Jacket--as Issued Hardcover, very good condition, w. lightly rubbed brds--a few lt scuffs. Ltly slanted, v. ltly compressed sp, lt reading crease. V. ltly bumped top corners. Ltly tanned p. edges, v. sm spot on p. tops. Creaky fr hinge. A few ltly tann