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Horse of a Different Color; Reminiscences of a Kansas Drover
by Ralph Moody
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
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WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
Item Price
NZ$53.29NZ$37.31
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About This Item
New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company, 1968 W.W. Norton & Company, New York. 1968. Hardcover. Stated First Edition/2nd Printing by Line Number. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good +; light bumping to head and tail; scant shelfwear. DJ: Good; NOT Price Clipped ($4.95); missing small pieces at head, tail, and front tips; closed tears to top and bottom of front panel. Yellow cloth boards and spine with black banding on spine and black lettering on spine. 272 pp 8vo. This book is a perfect example of rural American enterprise in the early 1920s. The author found himself with mountainous debts through collapse of the livestock market and in the process of digging himself out of debt, he also saved a Kansas town from total bankruptcy. He takes the reader through a flash flood, his admiration of his sanitary slaughter house, and his weeping over a forced farm auction. A glorious recollection of pre-Dust Bowl, pre-Depression days. 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 #
- 015532
- Title
- Horse of a Different Color; Reminiscences of a Kansas Drover
- Author
- Ralph Moody
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- W.W. Norton & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1968
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Ralph Moody, Kansas Drover, cattlemen, homesteading, Colorado Ranching life, livestock market crash, beef prices, children's stories, farm auction, Kansas livestock, anecdotes of Kansas life, personal memories of Kansas,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Memoirs; Kansas Related; 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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- Brodart
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- Price Clipped
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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....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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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