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HALF-BROKE HORSES:; A True-Life Novel
by Walls, Jeannette
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 1416586288
- ISBN 13
- 9781416586289
- Seller
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Lake Forest, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
New York London Toronto Sydney: Scribner, 2009. First Edition, Eighth Printing. Cloth and boards. Very Fine/Fine. SIGNED by the Author with flourish on the title page, tall 8vo (9 1/4" x 6 1/2"), red quarter cloth over black boards, illustrated with a B&W photo frontispiece & other photos as section headings, archival mylar-protected photographic dust jacket (unclipped) depicting three children with bicycle outside a dilapidated house, 272 pages + [2] About the Author. Jeannette Walls' somewhat fictionalized story about her grandmother Lily Casey Smith. "A true-life novel about a no-nonsense, resourceful, hard working and spectacularly compelling" woman.<br /> <br /> Destined to become a classic, Half Broke Horses is Laura Ingalls Wilder for adults, as riveting and dramatic as Isak Dinesen s Out of Africa or Beryl Markham s West with the Night. <br /> <br /> SUPERIOR COPY SIGNED by the Author. Tight, bright, clean in comparable unclipped dust jacket. No previous owner or remainder marks.
Synopsis
Jeannette Walls's The Glass Castle was "nothing short of spectacular" ( Entertainment Weekly ). Now she brings us the story of her grandmother -- told in a voice so authentic and compelling that the book is destined to become an instant classic. " Those old cows knew trouble was coming before we did ." So begins the story of Lily Casey Smith, in Jeannette Walls's magnificent, true-life novel based on her no-nonsense, resourceful, hard working, and spectacularly compelling grandmother. By age six, Lily was helping her father break horses. At fifteen, she left home to teach in a frontier town -- riding five hundred miles on her pony, all alone, to get to her job. She learned to drive a car ("I loved cars even more than I loved horses. They didn't need to be fed if they weren't working, and they didn't leave big piles of manure all over the place") and fly a plane, and, with her husband, ran a vast ranch in Arizona. She raised two children, one of whom is Jeannette's memorable mother, Rosemary Smith Walls, unforgettably portrayed in The Glass Castle . Lily survived tornadoes, droughts, floods, the Great Depression, and the most heartbreaking personal tragedy. She bristled at prejudice of all kinds -- against women, Native Americans, and anyone else who didn't fit the mold. Half Broke Horses is Laura Ingalls Wilder for adults, as riveting and dramatic as Isak Dinesen's Out of Africa or Beryl Markham's West with the Night . It will transfix readers everywhere.
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- Bookseller
- Borg Antiquarian
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8730
- Title
- HALF-BROKE HORSES:; A True-Life Novel
- Author
- Walls, Jeannette
- Format/Binding
- Cloth and boards
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, Eighth Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1416586288
- ISBN 13
- 9781416586289
- Publisher
- Scribner
- Place of Publication
- New York London Toronto Sydney
- Date Published
- 2009
- Keywords
- historical, Lily Casey Smith, fiction, biography, grandmother, poverty, work, woman, children, frontier, horses, West
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Borg Antiquarian
Biblio member since 2015
Lake Forest, Illinois
About Borg Antiquarian
BorgAntiquarian (ABAA & ILAB) is a dealer long engaged in selling exceptional collectibles: rare and fine books, autographs and manuscripts, fine art and artifacts. We are generalists in Americana, English & American literature, plus selected authors & important figures (Dickens & Darwin; presidents & 'signers'; scientists & historical figures; Revolutionary & Civil War militaria).
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