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Smoky. The Cowhorse
by James, Will
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- very good
- Seller
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Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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About This Item
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1928. Hardcover. very good. reprint. xi, 310pp. Octavo. White and grey patterned cloth with black lettering on spine and black lettering and decoration on front cover. Mild bumping to ends of spine and corners with light creaing to spine. Previous owner's (Rosemary Lick's) decorative bookplate is affixed to front pastedown. A light stain to the bottom of front endpapers. B.W illustrations throughout. Clean, tight text block with light discolouration to outer edge and long outer edge roughly trimmed. Only the front half of the dust jacket remains, in poor condition with much chipping around edges and some creases. A nice signed copy. very good Inscribed by Will James "to Rosemary" in 1931. Frazier 16. Will James (June 6, 1892 - September 3, 1942) was an artist and writer of the American West. Illustrated by the author. 1928
Synopsis
Smoky the Cowhorse is a novel by Will James that was the winner of the 1927 Newbery Medal. The story details the life of a horse in the western United States from his birth to his eventual decline. Smoky is born in the wild, but is captured and trained by a cowboy named Clint. Smoky is unusually intelligent, and soon becomes known as the best cowhorse around, and later is known as "The Cougar", the meanest bucking horse on the rodeo circuit.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Aquila Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 114137
- Title
- Smoky. The Cowhorse
- Author
- James, Will
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1928
- Keywords
- Western|Children's Literature|American Literature|Americana|Cowboy|Will James
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About Aquila Books
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Inscribed
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- Jacket
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- 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...
- 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...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Poor
- A book with significant wear and faults. A poor condition book is still a reading copy with the full text still readable. Any...
- 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....
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
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