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Cow Dust and Saddle Leather
by Kemp, Ben W. with J. C. Dykes
- Used
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Scottsdale, Arizona, United States
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About This Item
Norman, OK; (1968): University of Oklahoma Press. First Edition. Octavo. 300pp. illustrated by photographs. American history through the life of Ben Kemp. At twenty-one he was considered the best bronco buster in his part of Texas. In the 1880s he was with the Texas Rangers. The reader will also find new found heroes, Captain George W. Baylor, the Apache Kid, and Black Jack Ketchum are just a few known by Ben throughout Texas and the New Mexico frontier. Bound in yellow cloth, spine lettering gilt and brown, near fine in unclipped pictorial dust jacket, some rubbing to rear panel and edges, wrinkle near foot, numbers 9368 stamped to front pastedown and bottom of front flap, previous owner's bookplate on rear pastedown. A very nice copy. [6-Guns 1229].
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Details
- Bookseller
- Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 010340
- Title
- Cow Dust and Saddle Leather
- Author
- Kemp, Ben W. with J. C. Dykes
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- University of Oklahoma Press
- Place of Publication
- Norman, OK; (1968)
- Keywords
- Dallas Stoudenmire, be Kemp, Ed Scotten, the Apache Kid
- Bookseller catalogs
- Regional America; Range and Cattle;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB
Biblio member since 2006
Scottsdale, Arizona
About Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB
Alcuin Books located in Old Town Scottsdale is a store with 15,000 serious books for the collector or scholar. We have ample parking in front of the store for those who wish to browse our holdings.
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- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Spine
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- Cloth
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- Octavo
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Fine
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- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- 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...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
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