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Smoky the Cowhorse
by Will James
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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The Villages, Florida, United States
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About This Item
New York, Chicago, Boston, Atlanta, San Francisco, Dallas: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926. Hardcover. Good. Will James. A unique copy for the Will James collector or a collector. Date of 1926 on the copyright page - no other dates. "I" below copyright. This copy was probably held by a librarian, school teacher, or administer. See photos. Copies were given to schools in Texas to be used by school children. Contract price $.65, "property of Texas." No child dated or signed this copy. Probably few copies have survived, if any. 7 5/8" tall, 308 pp. Issued without jacket. Many illustration in black and white by Will James. A sound copy with light to moderate wear on edges and covers. Spine sunning, scattered foxing marks on some pages and edges. . Several leaves with edge dampstaining near fore edges or bottom edges. Some whitening near dampstaining. Several leaves with short ragged bottom edges - may have been issued this way. Tanning on pastedowns and feps areas. Toning to pages. Spine cloth has separated from gatherings. Book starting - can view some netting in a few places. Book looks better than it sounds. A part of history and an amazing survivor.
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- Bookseller
- D'Qualitas Books, Et. Al.
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 124049
- Title
- Smoky the Cowhorse
- Author
- Will James
- Illustrator
- Will James
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York, Chicago, Boston, Atlanta, San Francisco, Dallas
- Date Published
- 1926
- Pages
- 308
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Children, fiction, cowboys, Texas, Smoky, cowhorse
- Bookseller catalogs
- Vintage-Children; Vintage-Adult;
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About the Seller
D'Qualitas Books, Et. Al.
Biblio member since 2011
The Villages, Florida
About D'Qualitas Books, Et. Al.
D'Qualitas Books Et. Al. is a family operated internet bookstore. We offer a variety of used books that we have accumulated from various sources. Our specialties include Children and Adult Collector Books, Children and Adult Classic Books, First Editions, Out-of-Print Books, and general stock. All books that are listed are in our possession. They have been individually selected, and we conscientiously grade and describe them.
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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....
- Copyright page
- The page in a book that describes the lineage of that book, typically including the book's author, publisher, date of...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Gatherings
- A term used in bookbinding, where a gathering of sheets is folded at the middle, then bound into the binding together. The...
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