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Books West Southwest: Essays on Writers, Their Books, and Their Land by Powell, Lawrence Clark - 1957

by Powell, Lawrence Clark

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Books West Southwest: Essays on Writers, Their Books, and Their Land

by Powell, Lawrence Clark

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Los Angeles, CA: Ward Ritchie Press, 1957. Ex-Library, but still sound and VG otherwise. With usual lib. ownership and discard marks, pocket and bar code to front endpaper; spine catalog label neatly removed, Book shows minor wear only; text else clean and well bound inside. No jacket. Bound in the original publisher's cloth and patterned boards. From a professional bookseller, independent since 1997. All orders packaged with care.. Edition Unstated. Hard Cover. Ex-Library, else Very Good/No Jacket. Octavo.
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  • Publisher Ward Ritchie Press
  • Place of Publication Los Angeles, CA
  • Date Published 1957
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  • Size Octavo

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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,
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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.
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Los Angeles: Ward Ritchie Press, [1957] First edition. Clothbacked paterned boards. Octavo. Fine condition.
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BOOKS WEST SOUTHWEST: Essays on Writers, their Books, and their Land

by Powell, Lawrence Clark

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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.
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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.
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by Powell, Lawrence Clark

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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.
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