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No Time on My Hands
by Grace Snyder as told to Nellie Snyder Yost
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Good +
- Seller
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WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
Caldwell, ID / Broken Bow, NE: The Caxton Printers / Purcell's Incorporated , 1963 The Caxton Printers / Purcell's Incorporated, Caldwell, ID / Broken Bow, NE. 1963. Hardcover. First Edition (NAP). Retired high school library copy. Book is tight, has slight spine roll, and is unmarked but for a library bar code on the front pastedown. Book Condition: Good; book has library repaired splits in the front hinges; repaired with white tape and a gluing of the spine to the textblock; check out pocket and slip in rear; wear to head, tail, and board bottoms. DJ: Good +; NOT Price Clipped ($10.00); index sticker on spine; small tears and wrinkling of the top of the spine. Red buckram boards and spine with gilt lettering on the spine and front board. Maps as endpapers. 541 pp 8vo. This book is the story of a young girl (born in 1882) who with her family homesteaded on the Nebraska Plains in 1885. She learned to do all the things on a farm that sons usually did and experienced all the hardships of pioneer life- drouth, hail, blizzards, prairie fires, and mange- the cattle killer. During her youth she learned how to make patchwork quilts that earned her a reputation. The family moved to western Nebraska where she met a young cowboy, married and began a career as a schoolteacher. She spent the rest of her life on the ranch, made quilts, raised a family, and made quilts. A true accounting of life on the Nebraska frontier. A clean presentable reading copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.
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- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 015905
- Title
- No Time on My Hands
- Author
- Grace Snyder as told to Nellie Snyder Yost
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- The Caxton Printers / Purcell's Incorporated
- Place of Publication
- Caldwell, ID / Broken Bow, NE
- Date Published
- 1963
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Nebraska, Nebraska Sandhills, homesteading in Nebraska, Custer County Nebraska, ranching, schoolteacher, patchwork quilt making, Nellie Yost, Grace Snyder,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Autobiography;
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Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
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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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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- 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...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Buckram
- A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...
- Reading Copy
- Indicates a book that is perfectly serviceable for reading. It may have a defect or damage. As such, reading copy is not a...
- 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....
- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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