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Great River: The Rio Grande in North American History
by Horgan, Paul
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fair with No dust jacket as issued
- Seller
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Pueblo, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
New York: Rinehart & Company. Fair with No dust jacket as issued. 1954. First Trade Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Signed by Horgan on the front free endpaper of Volume 1, "Rose Johnson gives this book to her father John McIntyre/who has lived in the Rio Grande Valley for over 70 years/With Best Greetings/Paul Horgan/1954." Two volumes in slipcase, black cloth with blue endpapers. Front hinges cracked in both volumes. Owner name to the front pastedown of Volume 2, and a stain to the front free endpaper. Cloth dulled and rubbed, particularly to the spine of Volume 2. The pictorial slipcase is rubbed, with paper loss to the edges. Bibliography, index, maps. An essential regional history of the land, the people and the civilizations of the Southwest. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Signed trade editions are uncommon. Adams, Herd 1065. ; 1020 pages; Signed by Author .
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- Bookseller
- Bungalow Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 25012
- Title
- Great River: The Rio Grande in North American History
- Author
- Horgan, Paul
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair with No dust jacket as issued
- Edition
- First Trade Edition; First Printing
- Publisher
- Rinehart & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1954
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- History Indians of North America North America Rio Grande (Colo.-Mexico , and Tex.) Rio Grande Valley (Colo.-Mexico and Tex.) Rio Grande Valley Rio , Grande Southwestern States United States, Signed, FIRST Edition
- Bookseller catalogs
- Pulitzer Prize;
Terms of Sale
Bungalow Books, ABAA
Any item may be returned in original condition for any reason within a reasonable period and payment will be refunded.
About the Seller
Bungalow Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2009
Pueblo, Colorado
About Bungalow Books, ABAA
We are a family owned bookstore, with an emphasis on crime fiction, and signed books. We are members of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of American (ABAA), and the Rocky Mountain Antiquarian Booksellers Association (RMABA), and we exhibit regularly at book fairs.
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- Edges
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- Fair
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- Jacket
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- 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....
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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