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The Buffalo Hunters: The Story of the Hide Men
by SANDOZ, Mari
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Galena, Illinois, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Hastings House Publishers, 1954. Hardcover. 8vo. Light brown cloth spine and with gilt lettering and tan marbled paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. xii, 372pp. Illustrations, map endpapers. Near fine/good plus. Jacket edgeworn (rough at spine tail), with a few small edge chips and a tad rubbed; small ownership inkstamp on front flyleaf, rear pastedown and bottom of page 99. A tight, attractive second printing of this classic. Half-title page bears early Art Deco-ish custom bookplate of Ralph G. Newman (1912-98), founder of Chicago's noted Abraham Lincoln Book Shop.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 44804
- Title
- The Buffalo Hunters: The Story of the Hide Men
- Author
- SANDOZ, Mari
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Hastings House Publishers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1954
- Bookseller catalogs
- Books; Western Americana; Natural History;
Terms of Sale
Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts accepts most major credit cards and PayPal. Checks are welcome. Institutions will be accommodated as their procedures require. Every effort has been made to describe each book and any defects accurately. If an item proves unsatisfactory for any reason, it may be returned within seven days. We would appreciate a courtesy call if an item is being returned. Member ABAA, ILAB, MWABA, The Manuscript Society.
About the Seller
Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
Biblio member since 2005
Galena, Illinois
About Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Marbled Paper
- Decorative colored paper that imitates marble with a veined, mottled, or swirling pattern. Commonly used as the end papers or...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- G
- Good describes the average used and worn book that has all pages or leaves present. Any defects must be noted. (as defined by AB...
- 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....
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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