THE TOM-WALKER
by SANDOZ, MARI
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Light edge and Corner Wear/Chipped Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Prairie Village, Kansas, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: The Dial Press, 1947. Color pictorial dust jacket is not price-clipped, chipped at corners and spine extremities, and has old tape repairs. A very clean copy. A saga of three generations of Western American life.The term "tom-walker" was a circus slang expression for a stilt-walker. The protagonist of this story lost a leg in the Civil War and replaced it with an iron leg which he fashioned himself. 372pp.. First Edition. Blue-green Cloth. Light edge and Corner Wear/Chipped Dust Jacket. Octavo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Glenn Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 012965
- Title
- THE TOM-WALKER
- Author
- SANDOZ, MARI
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Light edge and Corner Wear
- Jacket Condition
- Chipped Dust Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- The Dial Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1947
- Size
- Octavo
- Keywords
- Western Americana, American Literature
Terms of Sale
Glenn Books
All books are subject to prior sale. Books are guaranteed as described and may be returned to us within 10 days with immediate notice of intent to return the item.
About the Seller
Glenn Books
Biblio member since 2005
Prairie Village, Kansas
About Glenn Books
We are an antiquarian bookshop established in 1933. We are members of ABAA and ILAB.
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- Spine
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- First Edition
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- Cloth
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- Octavo
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- Jacket
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