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Thistle Down and Prairie Rose: Poems
by Bess Truitt (AUTHOR SIGNED)
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
Item Price
£28.88£20.21
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About This Item
Kansas City, MO: Burton Publishing Company, 1940 Burton Publishing Company, Kansas City, MO. 1940. Hardcover. First Edition. Inscribed by the author on the half title page. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good; light bumping and shelfwear to head, tail, and tips; light soiling to rear board. No DJ. Lavender cloth boards and spine with dark purple lettering on the front board. Floral decorated endpapers. Clean internals. Interior hinges are sound and not split. 96 pp 8vo. This is a book of poetry that needs no introduction as they speak for themselves from the author's love of friends and places, especially the Oklahoma prairie with its flowers and thistles, the weather, the phenomena of day and night, and the vast sky that bends over all. Chapters in the book are Moods, Portraits, Seasonal Cadences, Laughter Patterns, Laid in is a small ribbon printed "Tipton Delphian" which is from the Tipton Oklahoma Delphian Society. A clean very presentable copy.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 015082
- Title
- Thistle Down and Prairie Rose: Poems
- Author
- Bess Truitt (AUTHOR SIGNED)
- Illustrator
- Eugene McFarland
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Burton Publishing Company
- Place of Publication
- Kansas City, MO
- Date Published
- 1940
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- poetry, writing, Oklahoma, Oklahoma poetry. Oklahoma related, Oklahoma history,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Oklahoma Related; Americana;
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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- Cloth
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- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, 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....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
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