Big Jim Turner by James Stevens - 1948

Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 1975. Reprint. . Soft cover. About Fine/Wraps. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Reprint; orig. pub. 1945. Trade PB in illustrated wraps. About Fine w/one bent lower corner, else Fine and unmarked. xi, 275pp.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1948. First Edition . Soft cover. Good/No Jacket. Blue card stock tall galley proof, paper label to front cover. Moderate fading to covers and light soil, contents are clean. Uncorrected proof for advance readers.

ALBUQUERQUE, NM.: UNIV. OF NEW MEXICO PRESS. G IN WRAPS. LIGHTLY WORN & SOILED. Pages: 275. . 1975. TRADE PAPERBACK..

Recommended by Gary Snyder, a book I wish I had read years ago. Labor, work and radicalism in the mines, woods and docks and horses in the Northwest and Idaho. Terrific discriptions of horse grading, logging and long shore work. Text is unmarked. Bottom corners bumped. Top front edge faded. Slight wear top of spine. good examples of white working people talking to each other. The impact of mine deaths on a boy and his life. Lots of mine detail.

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1948. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue cloth, pictorial dust jacket. 275pp. Very good/very good. Jacket mildly edgeworn amd a bit soiled. Tight, nice first edition of this fiction set in the old Northwest, the tale of a poetry-loving horseman. Delightful Paul Galdone front panel art.

Garden City, NY:: Doubleday,, 1948.. Hardcover first edition -. Good overall in light blue cloth (corners slightly bumped, previous owner's name) in a fair dust jacket with a tear to the upper edge of front cover, other edgewear. Original price of $3.00 still present. . First printing. While the author disclaims this novel - set in the Northwest in the early 1900s - as autobiographical, he does admit that "Ranch hand, mule skinner, hard-rock driller, logger, big town truck teamster, Wobbly, hobo poet - I worked as my hero works." 275 pp. Dust jacket art by Paul Galdone.

Doubleday & Company, 1948. First Printing. Hardcover. Fine. Octavo. Paul Galdone Dj Art. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the free endpaper with no other name present. Price intact. Very small (3/16") chip to bottom of jacket spine corner, and a smaller one at the bottom foreedge of the front jacket flap, protected by the Brodart jacket cover; otherwise a very good jacket.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

University of New Mexico Press, 1975-01-01. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!