Dutch Uncle
by Durham, Marilyn
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
- Seller
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Greenwood, Nova Scotia, Canada
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich (c.1973) Book Club Edition. Fleeing the wiles of a San Francisco woman in March 1880, Jake Hollander arrives in a New Mexico mining town as the incredulous and outraged custodian of a pair of Mexican orphans. He's a hard, mean man of forty-five, former gun-slinger, present cardsharp, whose plan is to dump the orphans and keep right on going to El Paso and a new career as saloonkeeper. What with one thing and another, he settles down for a spell in Arredondo, takes up his old calling of marshall, and finds his hands full with a whole lot more than just gun butts. There's the proprietress of the Golden Moon and there's Carrie Hand, a spinster of unexpected spirit. There's a complicated matter of some mail-order brides, long overdue. There is at large a desperado named Frank Becker, escaped from the Territorial Prison in Yuma, and there are always those two Mexican orphans..... This book is an altogether splendid entertainment! A clean, fresh book in a bright dust jacket design by Paul Bacon.. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good.
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- Seller
- Gilt Edge Books (CA)
- Seller's Inventory #
- A2152
- Title
- Dutch Uncle
- Author
- Durham, Marilyn
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Publisher
- Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
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About the Seller
Gilt Edge Books
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Greenwood, Nova Scotia
About Gilt Edge Books
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- Jacket
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