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Jackknife John
by Hanes, Frank Borden
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket
- Seller
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The Woodlands, Texas, United States
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About This Item
San Antonio: Naylor Company. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. INSCRIBED by author on front free endpaper, "May all good things come to the Lee [? ], great and small, from their friend - Frank Borden Hanes." "This is a Quarter Horse - this is Jackknife John. And here is the engrossing account of how he won the cutting competition at Fort Worth." Ships same or next business day. Slight slant to spine. Minor edge wear. Small bumps on spine ends. Light soiling to edges of pages. Overall, pages are tight, bright, and clean. Dust jacket protected in archival cover. DJ has moderate edge and shelf wear. Small chips on corners and spine ends. 3/4-inch chip on top left corner of back cover. 1-inch tear with crease on spine tail. Light soiling on back cover. Slightly tanned on interior. Tape on interior at stress point. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 265 pages; Signed by Author .
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- Bookseller
- Good Books In The Woods
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 72840
- Title
- Jackknife John
- Author
- Hanes, Frank Borden
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Naylor Company
- Place of Publication
- San Antonio
- Date Published
- 1964
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- 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...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Bumps
- Indicates that the affected part of the book has been impacted in such a way so as to cause a flattening, indention, or light...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition 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....
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- 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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