CALAMITY JANE AND THE LADY WILDCATS
by Aikman, Duncan
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Very Good
- Seller
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CARLSBAD , California, United States
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About This Item
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1927. Original black cloth with orange spine lettering. Yellow pictorial endpapers with drawings by Margaret Freeman. Textblock with orange top-edge stain, deckle fore and bottom edge. Photo frontispiece of Miss Martha Jane Canary in the melodramatic role of Calamity Jane. 15 additional half-tone plates in text. Ex libris of Arthur R. Andersen with his interesting bookplate on front pastedown. The book is fine. Very clean and tight with crisp text, no markings or foxing. In the very scarce yellow pictorial dustjacket, price intact, near fine. Housed in a custom slipcase. Second printing, November, 1927 (same month as first printing). Uncommon in this condition and with dustjacket. Fine / near fine.. Cloth. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- RON RAMSWICK BOOKS, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 11535
- Title
- CALAMITY JANE AND THE LADY WILDCATS
- Author
- Aikman, Duncan
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Publisher
- Henry Holt and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1927
- Keywords
- Calamity Jane Wild West Western Americana Belle Starr Gunfighters Deadwood
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Terms of Sale
RON RAMSWICK BOOKS, IOBA
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About the Seller
RON RAMSWICK BOOKS, IOBA
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CARLSBAD , California
About RON RAMSWICK BOOKS, IOBA
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Cloth
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- Bookplate
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- Fine
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...