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These Thousand Hills
by Guthrie, A. B., Jr
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Good
- Seller
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Edmonds, Washington, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1956. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. 5-3/4" x 8-1/2. 346 pages. First Edition/First Printing. Rust cloth spine with yellow title block with black printing on spine. Bright, clean, tight, and square text block, no marks of any kind. Corners sharp. Fore-edges of the leaves are rough-cut. Price clipped DJ in clear archival protector. DJ barely good, as it is quite worn, but it is all there - no important pieces missing - see photograph. From the DJ: 'Here, in short, is the story - so essential in the making of American character - of the retreat of civilization as it meets hardships at the frontier and of the return of virtues and of vices half extinct among us.'
Synopsis
When These Thousand Hills was published in 1956, The Saturday Review proclaimed it to be "so compelling that it is hard indeed to set aside until it has been devoured." Conjuring up the ephemeral world of cattle ranchers in the 1880s, this intimate saga delights in a Montana community's boisterous, wanderlusting eccentrics as they chase after love and their unbridled ambitions. At its center is Lat Evans, good-hearted and yet seduced by the possibilities for prosperity in his new life; gradually he discerns how the perils of the natural world, and most especially human nature, can conspire to frustrate a young man's best intentions. A lively, quixotic revisit to our historic youth, this literary classic deftly captures western drama at its finest, with all its accompanying toils of the heart.
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Details
- Bookseller
- McKenzie Company
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002052
- Title
- These Thousand Hills
- Author
- Guthrie, A. B., Jr
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1956
- Size
- 5-3/4" x 8-1/2
- Keywords
- First Edition
- Bookseller catalogs
- First Editions;
Terms of Sale
McKenzie Company
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- First Edition
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- Cloth
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- Spine
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- Tight
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- Price Clipped
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