The Ben Lilly Legend
by J Frank Dobie
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good+
- Seller
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St Margarets Hope , Orkney, United Kingdom
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About This Item
A very, very good copy in an outstanding but clipped dust jacket. Bright yellow cloth boards with black lettering to spine. A biography by J Frank Dobie who met Lilly and was fascinated the extraordinary man and the legend.Ben Lilly was "the greatest bear hunter in history after Davy Crockett by his own account and also by the record". He was at one time 'chief huntsman' to Teddy Roosevelt, hunted in Texas and Mexico, and came to be known as the master sign reader of the Rockies.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Boreas Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 59
- Title
- The Ben Lilly Legend
- Author
- J Frank Dobie
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First UK Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Hammond
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1952
- Keywords
- Hunting Roosevelt
- Bookseller catalogs
- First Editions;
- Size
- 8vo
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Boreas Books
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St Margarets Hope , Orkney
About Boreas Books
Boreas Books is an online bookstore situated in the Orkney Islands archipelago just off the north coast of Scotland. We are based in a converted water mill on the small island of South Ronaldsay. We stand at the head of Widewall Bay overlooking a seal-strewn skerry, a panorama of open water and distant scattered islands.
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