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Will Rogers: Young Cowboy
by Van Riper, Guernsey, Jr
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Maysville, Georgia, United States
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About This Item
Hardcover. 196 pp. The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Indianapolis, IN (1951). First Edition. Early Printing. $1.75 original price on DJ flap. PO pictorial bookplate on front pastedown. Otherwise, a bright, clean, and unmarked copy with light foxing of FEP's. Straight and sharp boards and corners. One small nick to cloth on front board. Spine heel crimped but not torn. DJ has moderate wear, with some scuffing and several small tears, and chipping of DJ at spine ends. Book is VG+ to NF. DJ is VG-. More photos on request. Shipped in a box within a box, in bubble wrap, with a tracking number.
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Details
- Bookseller
- BookRanger
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BR-0318-547
- Title
- Will Rogers
- Author
- Van Riper, Guernsey, Jr
- Illustrator
- Paul Laune
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover. Sewn binding is square and tight. Block and pages are clean and unmarked. Book appears to be gently read.
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition; Early Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- Indianapolis, IN
- Date Published
- 1951
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Fiction. Children's Book. Western. Humor.
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
BookRanger
Biblio member since 2017
Maysville, Georgia
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This is because we do not buy books blindly in mass purchases. All of our books are hand-picked for such qualities as condition, subject matter, scarcity, and overall appeal. On rare occasions, a book's physical condition may fall below our normal standards, due to scarcity of the particular title or edition. In any case, we make every attempt to use only the descriptive terms which accurately depict the particular book offered for sale.
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- 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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- Chipping
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
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