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Brave Cowboy - An Old Tale in a New Time
by Abbey, Edward
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Good dust jacket
- Seller
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Moab, Utah, United States
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About This Item
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. Black and tan paper boards with red and gilt lettering on spine; pictorial dust jacket in mylar jacket. Dust jacket has moderate chipping and creasing along edges and moderate soiling; not price clipped. Boards have moderate wear along all edges; text block is clean. "In the Brave Cowboy, Edward Abbey has used the hero and the trappings of his environment to present a latter-day allegory, which places his book foursquare in the ranks of the more original works by young writers today" (dust jacket). ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 277 pp .
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- Bookseller
- Back of Beyond Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 023319
- Title
- Brave Cowboy - An Old Tale in a New Time
- Author
- Abbey, Edward
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Good dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Dodd, Mead & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1956
- Keywords
- Edward Abbey, Fiction
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About the Seller
Back of Beyond Books
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Moab, Utah
About Back of Beyond Books
Located in the heart of the desert southwest Back of Beyond Books is an indie bookstore in Moab, Utah. The name of the store was drawn from one of Edward Abbey's most well-known fiction titles, The Monkey Wrench Gang. We specialize in natural history, environmental literature, southwestern guidebooks & maps, Native American books, and Western history. But we also carry a wild assortment of fiction, science, philosophy, current affairs, rare books, and generally other cool stuff.
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- 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...
- 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...
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