Red Blood & Black Ink: Journalism in the Old West
by DARY, David
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0679446559
- ISBN 13
- 9780679446552
- Seller
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Littleton, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. 0679446559 . Stated first edition. A history of journalism in the Old West. David Dary describes how enterprising newspapermen often set up shop in frontier towns, using bare-bones printing presses and limited facilities to deliver news to the newly-arrived settlers. With information about such notable journalists as Mark Twain, Bret Harte and Horace Greeley. Includes 79 illustrations. --- In tan and green paper-covered boards with gilt-stamped spine titling. Jacket features photos of a print set-up under a tree and an early editor reviewing his newspaper. --- An excellent copy: clean, tightly-bound and unmarked, though with mildly bumped cover corners and inked ownership statement by Dick Kreck, long-time Denver newspaperman and editor. Price-clipped dust jacket with mild rubbing, otherwise newish, bright and wrapped in removable mylar protector.; Tall Octavo - 9 to 10 in. tall; xiv, 345 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Bluebird Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 84818
- Title
- Red Blood & Black Ink: Journalism in the Old West
- Author
- DARY, David
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0679446559
- ISBN 13
- 9780679446552
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1998
- Keywords
- 0679446559
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