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Cowboy Capital of the World: The Saga of Dodge City
by Carter, Samuel, III
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/VG-
- ISBN 10
- 0385051921
- ISBN 13
- 9780385051927
- Seller
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La Mesa, California, United States
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About This Item
Garden City, New York: Doubleday and Company, Inc., 1973. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Fine/VG-. Reveals "the truth behind the legends" of colorful Wild West characters in & around Dodge City, Kansas, in the late 1800s, such as Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, Bat Masterson, & Big Nose Kate. In 280 pages + 32 pages of black-and-white photos & drawings. A FIRST EDITION, First Printing from 1973, this hardcover book has pumpkin-colored cloth over boards with silver lettering to spine, map endpapers. Condition is Fine: completely clean, binding strong & straight, hinges secure., pages modestly tanned; off-white with tanning. The unclipped DJ is VG-, with a heavily sunned spine, rubbed extremities, & small chips & tears at all corners & both ends of spine. Nicely protected in new mylar cover Free!Our photos depict the Exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same day shipping on all orders received Weekdays by 2 pm (PST); later orders, weekends & holidays ship very next business day.
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- Bookseller
- Gargoyle Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 020814
- Title
- Cowboy Capital of the World: The Saga of Dodge City
- Author
- Carter, Samuel, III
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- VG-
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0385051921
- ISBN 13
- 9780385051927
- Publisher
- Doubleday and Company, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, New York
- Date Published
- 1973
- Keywords
- WESTERN WILD WEST COWBOYS NATIVE AMERICAN INDIANS GUNSLINGERS LEGENDS FRONTIER NINETEENTH CENTURY UNITED STATES HISTORY KANSAS OUTLAWS
- Bookseller catalogs
- Californiana;
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