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Texas: An Informal Biography.
by White, Owen P
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- BINDING/CONDITION: gray cloth with red and black text and decoration; a Very Good book, with a Very Good dust jacket; publisher'
- Seller
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Oroville, California, United States
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About This Item
New York:: G P Putnam's Sons, 1945.. 2nd Printing.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: gray cloth with red and black text and decoration; a Very Good book, with a Very Good dust jacket; publisher's price on the jacket flap is intact.. 8vo (8.25 inches tall) . Index. Map endpapers. Description: Dust jacket design by Grace James. Includes a frontis and two additional plates, a map, and seven other black and white illustrations .Listed in Six-Guns Number 2385; Rampaging Herd Number 2509. The publisher's blurb reads: ''Mr. White writes with gusto, with such a store of Texas knowledge and legend as probably no other writer possesses, and with a keen sense of the ridiculous. He knows his Texans from the ground up, and his tale is made vivid not by the men who were elected to office or who acted as spokesmen and leaders, but by the men who did the job of making Texas what it came to be.''
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- Bookseller
- The Bookworm
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 067532
- Title
- Texas: An Informal Biography.
- Author
- White, Owen P
- Format/Binding
- Hardbound
- Book Condition
- Used - BINDING/CONDITION: gray cloth with red and black text and decoration; a Very Good book, with a Very Good dust jacket; publisher'
- Edition
- 2nd Printing.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- G P Putnam's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date Published
- 1945.
- Pages
- 268 pages.
- Size
- 8vo (8.25 inches tall)
Terms of Sale
The Bookworm
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About the Seller
The Bookworm
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Oroville, California
About The Bookworm
We are a small town bookstore, in the same location for over fifteen years. We strive to maintain a wide selection of books in lower price ranges.
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