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Cherokee Bill: Oklahoma Pacer
by Jean Bailey (AUTHOR SIGNED)
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
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WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
New York/Nashville : Abingdon-Cokesbury Press, 1952 Abingdon-Cokesbury Press, New York/Nashville. 1952. Hardcover. 2nd Printing by Letter Line (B). Signed by the author on the FFFP. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good +; light bumping to head and tail; light shelfwear to head tail, and tips; factory defect small edge fold to page 39-40; small factory defect tear/fold to top edge page 179-180. DJ: Good +; NOT Price Clipped ($2.50); chipping and small tears to head and upper tips; closed tear on lower front gutter near tail. Tan cloth boards and spine with bright black lettering on the spine and front board. Clean internals. Internal hinges are sound and not split. 190 pp 8vo. This is the story of a boy and horse set on the Kansas/Oklahoma border during the Land Rush of 1889 on the Cherokee Strip. David Rutledge and his horse Cherokee Bill not only help gain the homestead land, but they become a prize-winning pacer team that helps make ends meet on the prairie. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.
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- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 014319
- Title
- Cherokee Bill: Oklahoma Pacer
- Author
- Jean Bailey (AUTHOR SIGNED)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Abingdon-Cokesbury Press
- Place of Publication
- New York/Nashville
- Date Published
- 1952
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Cherokee Strip, Land Rush of 1889, Oklahoma territory, Oklahoma Land Rush, Homesteading, Pacer horse, trotter horse, farming, horses, rider-horse teams.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Oklahoma Related;
Terms of Sale
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or in the unfortunate event, damaged. All books are packed and wrapped with care to avoid shifting during shipment and edge/tip strikes during the mailing process.
About the Seller
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Biblio member since 2018
WINFIELD, Kansas
About Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.
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- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- 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....
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- 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...
- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...
- Letter line
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