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All in the Day's Riding
by James, Will
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/No
- Seller
-
East Granby, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1933. First edition [1933], with the Scribner's A on the copyright page and 1933 on the title page. One condition issue, otherwise near fine - about a third of the dedication page, which contains the first page of the preface on the other side - has been torn out, with loss of most of the first page preface text but not the illustration. Bright red, unfaded cloth lettered in gilt with a horse motif in black, 252 pages. The book has very minor rubbing to the corners and spine ends, bright fabric and gilt, good hinges, firm text block, very clean pages free from names or other markings. Collected short "true" tales of cowboy life, told with the author's usual wry humor, and illustrated throughout with the author's line drawings. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Resource Books, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 030540
- Title
- All in the Day's Riding
- Author
- James, Will
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1933
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- WILL JAMES COWBOY MEMOIR WESTERN AMERICANA UNITED STATES
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's Books; Fiction, Literature, Poetry, Literary History;
Terms of Sale
Resource Books, LLC
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About the Seller
Resource Books, LLC
Biblio member since 2004
East Granby, Connecticut
About Resource Books, LLC
Resource Books, LLC deals in antiquarian and out-of-print books in a wide variety of subject matter, mainly non-fiction.
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Fine
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- Title Page
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- Cloth
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- Copyright page
- The page in a book that describes the lineage of that book, typically including the book's author, publisher, date of...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- 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....
- 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....
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
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