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Big Jim Turner by STEVENS, James - 1948

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Big Jim Turner by STEVENS, James - 1948

Big Jim Turner

by STEVENS, James

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Garden City: Doubleday and Company, 1948. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. Foxing on the endpapers and tiny spots on the boards, else near fine in very good dustwrapper with some tiny splash marks on the spine. Picaresque and seemingly autobiographical novel by an Iowan born, of a proletarian knockabout in the West, sympathetic to the hobo and casual laborer. Inscribed by the author: "For Norman Thomas, Remembering a most happy meeting - Jim Stevens. Seattle December, 1954." Thomas was an author, socialist, and six-time presidential candidate for the Socialist Party of America.
  • Bookseller Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA US (US)
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  • Book Condition Used - Near Fine
  • Jacket Condition Very Good
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  • Binding Hardcover
  • Publisher Doubleday and Company
  • Place of Publication Garden City
  • Date Published 1948
  • Keywords Socialism, AssociationCopy, TrampsAndHobos

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Big Jim Turner (A Zia book)

by James Stevens

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Big Jim Turner (A Zia book)

by Stevens, James

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Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 1975. Reprint. . Soft cover. About Fine/Wraps. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Reprint; orig. pub. 1945. Trade PB in illustrated wraps. About Fine w/one bent lower corner, else Fine and unmarked. xi, 275pp.
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Big Jim Turner

by Stevens, James

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Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1948. First Edition . Soft cover. Good/No Jacket. Blue card stock tall galley proof, paper label to front cover. Moderate fading to covers and light soil, contents are clean. Uncorrected proof for advance readers.
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BIG JIM TURNER

by STEVENS, JAMES; Introduction by CLARE, WARREN L

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Used - G IN WRAPS. LIGHTLY WORN & SOILED. Pages: 275.
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ALBUQUERQUE, NM.: UNIV. OF NEW MEXICO PRESS. G IN WRAPS. LIGHTLY WORN & SOILED. Pages: 275. . 1975. TRADE PAPERBACK..
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Big Jim Turner: introduced by Warrne Clare

by Stevens James

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Recommended by Gary Snyder, a book I wish I had read years ago. Labor, work and radicalism in the mines, woods and docks and horses in the Northwest and Idaho. Terrific discriptions of horse grading, logging and long shore work. Text is unmarked. Bottom corners bumped. Top front edge faded. Slight wear top of spine. good examples of white working people talking to each other. The impact of mine deaths on a boy and his life. Lots of mine detail.
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by STEVENS, James

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Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1948. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue cloth, pictorial dust jacket. 275pp. Very good/very good. Jacket mildly edgeworn amd a bit soiled. Tight, nice first edition of this fiction set in the old Northwest, the tale of a poetry-loving horseman. Delightful Paul Galdone front panel art.
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by James Stevens

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Doubleday, 1948. Hardcover. Good. Disclaimer:Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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BIG JIM TURNER.

BIG JIM TURNER.

by Stevens, James

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Used - Good overall in light blue cloth (corners slightly bumped, previous owner's name) in a fair dust jacket with a tear to the u
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Garden City, NY:: Doubleday,, 1948.. Hardcover first edition -. Good overall in light blue cloth (corners slightly bumped, previous owner's name) in a fair dust jacket with a tear to the upper edge of front cover, other edgewear. Original price of $3.00 still present. . First printing. While the author disclaims this novel - set in the Northwest in the early 1900s - as autobiographical, he does admit that "Ranch hand, mule skinner, hard-rock driller, logger, big town truck teamster, Wobbly, hobo poet - I worked as my hero works." 275 pp. Dust jacket art by Paul Galdone.
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Big Jim Turner

by Stevens, James

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Doubleday & Company, 1948. First Printing. Hardcover. Fine. Octavo. Paul Galdone Dj Art. Signed. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the free endpaper with no other name present. Price intact. Very small (3/16"") chip to bottom of jacket spine corner, and a smaller one at the bottom foreedge of the front jacket flap, protected by the Brodart jacket cover; otherwise a very good jacket.
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Big Jim Turner (A Zia book)
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Big Jim Turner (A Zia book)

by Stevens, James

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9780826303806
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0826303803
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University of New Mexico Press, 1975-01-01. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!
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