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The Generous Years; Remembrances of a Frontier Boyhood
by Chet Huntley
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0394426185
- ISBN 13
- 9780394426181
- Seller
-
WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
New York, NY: Random House, 1968 Random House, New York. 1968. Hardcover. Stated First Printing. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good; bumping to head, tail and front upper tip; small splash stains to textblock top. DJ; Very Good; NOT Price Clipped ($4.95); bumping to head, tail, and tips; light suntanning to spine. Khaki cloth boards with brown cloth overlay on the spine with dulled gilt lettering on the spine. 215 pp 8vo. The author was born in Cardwell Montana, near Saco where his early years were growing up in one of America's last frontiers- the prairies and towns of Montana before his long career in radio and television. 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 #
- 008399
- Title
- The Generous Years; Remembrances of a Frontier Boyhood
- Author
- Chet Huntley
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0394426185
- ISBN 13
- 9780394426181
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1968
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- Chet Huntley, Montana, Cardwell Montana, Saco Montana, news broadcaster, television newscaster, radio, television, Montana State College at Bozeman,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Memoirs; Art/Music/Motion Pictures/Television; Autobiography;
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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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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....
- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
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