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Lone Cowboy: My Life Story
by James, Will
- Used
- very good
- Signed
- Condition
- very good
- Seller
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Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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About This Item
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1930. Undetermined. very good. 1st edition, with first issue jacket/trade copy jacket (green variant). 431 [2 pages with drawings]pp. Octavo. Green cloth with gilt lettering on spine and front cover. Black illustration of a horse and cowboy on front of board. Light wear to ends of spine and corners. Some very light discolouration to endpapers. B/W portrait frontis. Black and white illustrations throughout. Clean, tight text block with only some mild discolouration to outer edge. Long outer edge of text block roughly trimmed. In greenish dust jacket, not price clipped. The jacket is worn at edges with some creasing, small closed tears and mild chipping. There is a 3/4" tear at the top of the back of the jacket which has caused some creasing around it. The jacket is lightly soiled, with darkening to edges and fading to spine (there is also a light stain to the bottom right of the back of the jacket). Jacket has 2.75$ price and Ny Herald Tribune quote (this is the jacket from the first trade edition). Altogether a very nice copy. very good Frazier PG 40. With a contemporary signature by the author in blue ink on the front free endpaper. Illustrated by the author. A true first edition as signified by the Scribner's A- with first trade edition jacket. Will James was a cowboy, cattle rustler, beloved author and artist of the American West. 1930
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Details
- Bookseller
- Aquila Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 132228
- Title
- Lone Cowboy: My Life Story
- Author
- James, Will
- Format/Binding
- Undetermined
- Book Condition
- Used - very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1930
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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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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- 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...
- 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....
- 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...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
- 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...
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