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The Three Mustangeers
by James, Will
- Used
- very good
- first
- Condition
- very good
- Seller
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Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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About This Item
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1933. Undetermined. very good. 1st Edition. xii, 338pp. Octavo. Green cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Gold and black lettering and illustration on front cover. Some wear to boards with light bumping and wear to ends of spine, corners and top back edge of boards. Spine is somewhat darkened and writing is rubbed. Some foxing to endpapers carried through slightly to the pages next to the endpapers. Previous owners name on page after front free endpaper (1933). B/W frontis. Several B/W illustration throughout text. Reddish top edge of text block. Other two outer edges of text block have been roughly trimmed. Clean, tight text block with only some lightly scattered foxing. In dust jacket, price clipped. The jacket is rubbed with some creasing, soiling and wear (especially at spine and edges). The dust jacket has some chipping along the top and bottom with a few small closed tears and some minor professional restoration done. A nice copy. very good Illustrated by the author. A true first edition as signified by the Scribner's A. Will James was a cowboy, cattle rustler, beloved author and artist of the American West. 1933
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Details
- Bookseller
- Aquila Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 132060
- Title
- The Three Mustangeers
- 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
- 1933
- Keywords
- American Artists|American Author|American Literature|American West|Cowboy Art|Western|Western Art
Terms of Sale
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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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- 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...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- 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....
- 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....
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- 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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