WILD HORSE OF THE RIO GRANDE
by Franklin, George Cory
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Near Very Good
- Seller
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Poplar Grove, Illinois, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Houghton Mifflin Company, 1951. Beige hardcover cloth binding with dark brown decoration and title is clean square and tight. Dustjacket shows minimal shelfwear and displays nicely in clean Brodart jacket. Gift note on half-title page only mark. Illustrated endpapers. Interior clean, bright and tight. 181 pages with great color and b/w illustrations throughout. Twelve original horse stories by a cowboy who lived every one of them. Stories have info on how to break, brand, and train horses for work on the range. The heroes are the horse: the colt Baden who fought Diablo the herd leader; Red Cloud, who got even with the thief who branded him; Major who escaped from a mining camp and led his mule back all the way back to Colorado; and many others.. Illus. by Moyers, William. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Very Good.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Deja Vu Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 013646
- Title
- WILD HORSE OF THE RIO GRANDE
- Author
- Franklin, George Cory
- Illustrator
- Moyers, William
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Near Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Company
- Date Published
- 1951
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Bookseller catalogs
- Horses - Nonfiction, Children and Adult;
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Deja Vu Books
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About the Seller
Deja Vu Books
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...