Cactus Center. Poems of an Arizona Town.
by Chapman, Arthur
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/G-
- Seller
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Hampden, Maine, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1921. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/G-. 122, [1] pp. Decorated paper covered boards over green cloth with cactus pattern design on the front panel, spine title gilt. The dust jacket has a cactus pattern similar to the front panel. Nicely Illustrated frontispiece & recto of frontispiece; also with illustrated title page, and head-pieces over contents page and the first poem. Cowboy poetry with a rich Western humor; "In vigor of style, irresistibly suggests a transplanted Kipling. " The author was a colunnist for a Denver newspaper. Near Fine in dust jacket with a loose piece out of bottom of spine; the jacket is otherwise good. The loose piece of the jacket is laid in.
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- Bookseller
- Lippincott Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5470
- Title
- Cactus Center. Poems of an Arizona Town.
- Author
- Chapman, Arthur
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- G-
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1921
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry; Western Americana;
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