JAMES BOWIE, THE LIFE OF A BRAVO
by Douglas, C. L
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+ in Good+ dust jacket
- Seller
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Fairfield, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
Dallas Texas: Banks Upshaw and Co.. Very Good+ in Good+ dust jacket. 1944. First Edition. Hardcover. Original red cloth decorated with a Bowie knife & black title. Text tight, clean & intact. Portrait frontispiece. The life-story of the rip roaring wielder of the original Bowie Knife. A colorful character of pioneer America. Prior owners signature. Price clipped dust jacket with edge wear, G+ condition. Texas; Portrait Frontispiece; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 216 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Nick Bikoff, Bookseller (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 15346
- Title
- JAMES BOWIE, THE LIFE OF A BRAVO
- Author
- Douglas, C. L
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ in Good+ dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Banks Upshaw and Co.
- Place of Publication
- Dallas Texas
- Date Published
- 1944
- Keywords
- Texas, Southern Americana
Terms of Sale
Nick Bikoff, Bookseller
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About the Seller
Nick Bikoff, Bookseller
Biblio member since 2005
Fairfield, New Jersey
About Nick Bikoff, Bookseller
Nick Bikoff and his wife Fran have been buying and selling quality books and ephemera since 1989 when they attended the "Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar" at the University of Denver. They offer a broad based selection of used, rare, and out-of-print stock ranging from the sixteenth to the twentieth century.
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- G+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good. Good is defined as "describes the average used and worn book...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
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