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Cowboys North and South
by James, Will
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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About This Item
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929. xvii, 217pp. Large octavo. Grey textured cloth with black lettering stamped on spine and front board and a drawing of a cowboy and a horse in brown stamped to the front board. Light bumping/wear to the head and tail of the spine and corners. Clean, tight text block with line drawings throughout. Illustrated dust jacket has been price clipped and suffers from some chipping and edgewear; toning to the jacket's spine. An inscription and drawing done by Will James on the ffep. Overall, a very good inscribed copy. Contains an original drawing by Will James done in black ink, along with a warm inscription to "Ross Welch". This is a wonderfully well preserved and inscribed reprint copy. 1929
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Details
- Bookseller
- Aquila Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 141392
- Title
- Cowboys North and South
- Author
- James, Will
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1929
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- American Author|American Literature|Cowboys|James, Will|Literature|Western|Western Americana|Will James
Terms of Sale
Aquila Books
30 day return guarantee, with refund if an item arrives misdescribed.
About the Seller
Aquila Books
Biblio member since 2010
Calgary, Alberta
About Aquila Books
Aquila Books specializes in books dealing with Polar Exploration, Western Canadiana, Mountaineering, the Canadian Pacific Railway, Early Voyages as well as many other areas. We also deal in antique maps and prints, historic photos, autograph letters, postcards, antique scientific instruments and antique bookcases. Please contact us if you have any questions.
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- 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....
- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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....
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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