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Saddle Horse Days (The Story of Danny)
by Blanch Carroll Rush (AUTHOR SIGNED)
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
-
WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
Chicago, IL: Adams Press, 1971 Adams Press, Chicago, IL. 1971. Hardcover. First Edition. Book is tight, square, and unmarked but for F/O address labels (2) on the front endpapers and a newspaper clipping for the Rush's wedding anniversary pasted to the rear pastedown. Inscribed by the author on the FFFP. Book Condition: Very Good; slight shelfwear; slight soiling to textblock edges; bend edges on pages 135-144 from an adjacent book board strike against the fore edge textblock. DJ: Good +; NOT Price Clipped ($6.50) with strike through for a new price of $5.00; suntoning to spine, top edge, and flap folds; wear to head, tail, and tips; water glass mark on front panel. Red buckram boards and spine with bright gilt lettering on the spine and front board. 191 pp 8vo. This is the story of the Rush Family who moved to Kansas from Kentucky in the 1870s and is told by one of the sons, Daniel or Danny, and follows his life, family events and happenings through different locations in Kansas up to his settling down with the author in Winfield Kansas. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.
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- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 013184
- Title
- Saddle Horse Days (The Story of Danny)
- Author
- Blanch Carroll Rush (AUTHOR SIGNED)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Adams Press
- Place of Publication
- Chicago, IL
- Date Published
- 1971
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- biography, pioneer life, Kansas history, personal memoirs of Kansas, Cowley County Kansas history, Kansas farming, Kansas ranching, Rush Family history
- Bookseller catalogs
- Kansas Related; Biographies; Autobiography;
Terms of Sale
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or in the unfortunate event, damaged. All books are packed and wrapped with care to avoid shifting during shipment and edge/tip strikes during the mailing process.
About the Seller
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Biblio member since 2018
WINFIELD, Kansas
About Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.
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- Buckram
- A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- New
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- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Edges
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- Fore Edge
- The portion of a book that is opposite the spine. That part of a book which faces the wall when shelved in a traditional...
- Price Clipped
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- First Edition
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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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...
- 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....
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