Rock River Ranger; The Story of a Young Pioneer
by Ben T. Young
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Fair
- Seller
-
WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
New York, NY: Abelard Press, 1953 Abelard Press, New York. 1953. Hardcover. First Edition (NAP). Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good +; light dust soiling to textblock top; slight shelfwear. DJ: Fair; NOT Price Clipped ($2.50); missing piece at spine tail; chipping, closed tears, and small missing pieces along edges. Yellow cloth boards and spine with black lettering on the spine. 157 pp 8vo. A story for youths 10-15. Joel McCord, his mother and younger sister make a move from New Orleans to the Western Territoriesi was dangerous but on arriving at their destination white/Indian relations were tense and soon led to a battle with pioneers, rangers, Indians, soldiers, French settlers all involved. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 006602
- Title
- Rock River Ranger; The Story of a Young Pioneer
- Author
- Ben T. Young
- Illustrator
- Nils Hogner
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Abelard Press
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1953
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- Fiction, Americana, Indian Wars, Westward migration, Boys books, boys fiction, youth books, adventure books,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Adolescent/Childrens Books; Americana;
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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- 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...
- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....