Where The Wagon Led by R.D. Symons - 1973

Doubleday Canada Limited, 1973. Hardcover. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Doubleday, 1973. Hardcover. Acceptable. Disclaimer:Former library book; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Doubleday, 1973. Hardcover. Good. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Doubeday & Company. Good in Good dust jacket. 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. 0385075030 . Mild cover wear and moderate edge wear, moderate wear to DJ with very small chips/tears at corners and spine ends, DJ price clipped, binding tight, text clean. A Little Store that's BIG on Service. Tracking on every package. ; Drawings; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 343 pages; Dick-8-1 .

Toronto, ON, Canada: Doubleday Canada Limited, 1973. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good Minus DJ. Symons, R.D.. 8vo, Brown and black boards with gilt letters. FIRST EDITION. There is a B.C.E. stamp on the rear board. DJ has five tears to three quarters of an inch. One man's memories of the cowboy's life in the old West. Illustrated with 70 sketches by the author. 343 pages.

Doubleday, 1973. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fair. 23-17-4. In Very Good Used Condition For More Information On Condition. Please See All Photos Where The Wagon Led, Originally Published In 1973, Offers A Vivid Personal Account Of Life On The Canadian Prairies Before The Land Was Settled For Farming. Rich In Detail And Humour, These Stories Impart A Deep Respect And Understanding For An Environment That Is At Once Frightening And Fragile. A Writer And Artist, Environmentalist And Rancher, R. D. Symons Was Born In England In 1898 And Came To Canada As A Teenager To Work On A Ranch. In These Stories, Lovingly Illustrated With More Than Seventy Line Drawings By The Author, Symons Tells Of His Initiation Into The Life Of The Cowboy. Where The Wagon Led Conveys A Respect For The Prairie And Its Creatures, And A Profound Sadness At The Passing Of Horse-Powered Culture.

Toronto: Doubleday, 1973. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. pp. 343, 70 sketch illustrations.

Garden City: Doubleday & Company Inc., 1973. BOOK: Previous Owner Markings (Initials Neatly Inked to Upper Corners of Front and Rear Free Endpapers); Spine, Boards Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled. DUST JACKET: Repaired; Lightly Creased; Moderately Chipped; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age; Spine Lightly Faded Due to Sun Exposure; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. With 70 sketches by the author. SUB-TITLE: One Man's Memories of the Cowboy's Life in the Old West. BOOK NUMBER: 0545. JACKET BY: Rob Cobuzio. CONTENTS: Dedication; Acknowledgments; Code of the Range; Introduction; Where the Wagon Led; PROLOGUE Part I Green Hand; Part II War Horses; Part III Horse Peddlin'; Part IV Big Dry; Part V On the Bench; Part VI Peace Horses; Part VII Vaquero Land; Epilogue. SYNOPSIS: The old cowboying way of life is almost gone, but this classic book by one of the few survivors is a fine memorial to it. R. D. Symons is an old man now, old… Read More

Toronto: Doubleday Canada, 1973 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Thus. "The old cowboying life is almost gone, but this classic book by one of the few survivors . old enough to remember the great days of the open range, before the homesteaders moved in with their plows and fences . the lost but not forgotten world of cowboys, cattle and horses, and shows us the West as it really was. The details of the cowboy's life are all here: what he ate on round-up, what he had in his bedroll, why he sang while riding night herd, how he broke a horse. what happened when he reached the ranch head. " 343p. illustrated by the author.

Doubleday Books, New York., 1973. First Edition (Stated).. Hardcover.. Very Fine/VG+. 8 1/2 x 5 3/4 x 1 1/4.. NON SMOKING STORE. My listing INCLUDES PHOTO OF ACTUAL BOOK for sale. NEVER READ. Book is VERY FINE/ Dust Jacket is Near Fine. Sewn binding. Boards are brown cloth, spine and part boards are black cloth, gilt lettering. Dust jacket is NOT PRICE CLIPPED, is brown & yellow, with pictorial front and large black/white photo back. Dust jacket is slightly age darkened in a few places, spine is quite sunned and has two small black marks (not remainder marks). Dust jacket has a few vertical creases on flap fold, a few small creases here and there, a small amount of brown colour missing on front at flap fold, two tips at top of DJ spine 1/4 inch, and minimal edge wear. Book covers and spine are clean, bright, straight, no bent corners, no creases, flat, two tiny shelf wear marks on bottom of spine. Page edges clean, bright, white. Inside of book is tight, bright, crisp, white, flat.… Read More