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On the Border with Crook
by Bourke, John G
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No dustjacket as issued
- Seller
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Portland, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Charles Scribner's Sons, 1892-01-01. 2nd Edition. Hardbound. Good/No dustjacket as issued. Hardbound book in good+ condition. 2nd edition in dark red cloth boards embellished with silvergilt lettering and decoration. Gilting remains bright. Book is decommissioned from the Gloria Grace Griffen collection at the University of Nevada Reno, and bears the bookplate of that collection on front pastedown. Gift inscription in pencil on FFEP. Original endpapers show soil, aging and corner wear. Modern repair to the book's hinges includes new endpapers and pastedowns. Spine is beginning to loosen, and there is age-related toning at page edges. Head edge of text block has darkened considerably with age. There is bumping at head and tail of spine, with the spine bump extensive and resulting in creasing at bottom spine area of all pages in book. There is the rare margin note.
Synopsis
“There is an old saying in the Army which teaches that you can never know a man until after having made a scout with him in bad weather. All the good qualities and bad in the human makeup force their way to the surface under the stimulus of privation and danger, .... late friend and commander ....present volume, there will be found collected descriptions of the regions in which the major portion of General Crook’s Indian work was carried on; the people, both red and white, with whom he was brought into contact; the difficulties with which he had to contend, and the manner in which he overcame them.” -from the preface.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Chaparral Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- GGGbouONT
- Title
- On the Border with Crook
- Author
- Bourke, John G
- Format/Binding
- Hardbound
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No dustjacket as issued
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Date Published
- 1892-01-01
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
Terms of Sale
Chaparral Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Chaparral Books
Biblio member since 2015
Portland, Oregon
About Chaparral Books
Chaparral Books is located across from Elephant's Deli on S Corbett Avenue in Portland. We have a well rounded collection of subjects, including an extensive core collection in Western Americana and Native American Literature including Western Writers.
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- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Good+
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- Cloth
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- New
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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...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- 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....
- 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....
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