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Californios: The Saga of the Hard-Riding Vaqueros, America's First Cowboys by Mora, Jo J - 1949

by Mora, Jo J

Californios: The Saga of the Hard-Riding Vaqueros, America's First Cowboys by Mora, Jo J - 1949

Californios: The Saga of the Hard-Riding Vaqueros, America's First Cowboys

by Mora, Jo J

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Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1949. First edition. Jo J. Mora. Octavo. 175pp. Numerous full page and in-text illustrations. Brown cloth with gilt lettering and vaquero spur stamp to front cover; decorative endpapers. Light wear; a near fine copy. In this, his last book, Jo Mora pays tribute to the daring and skill of the California vaqueros, "that hearty breed of missionary-trained horsemen who tended the immense mission herds for eighty years before the Texas cowboys appeared on our national scene." (Grandeau-Shorts B13).
  • Bookseller Independent bookstores US (US)
  • Illustrator Jo J. Mora
  • Book Condition Used
  • Quantity Available 1
  • Edition First edition
  • Publisher Doubleday & Company
  • Place of Publication Garden City
  • Date Published 1949
  • Keywords Indians; Cattle; Horse, Jo Mora, California, Vaquero, Cowboy
Fifty Funny Animal Tales
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Fifty Funny Animal Tales

by Mora, Jo (illustrator); Smith, Laura Rountree and Joseph J. Mora

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First Edition
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Hardcover
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Chicago: Albert Whitman Company, 1923. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. A chapter book illustrated by Jo Mora (credited on the title page as Joseph J. Mora) and Sue M. Sealy. Mora's contributions are small black-and-white in-text vignettes of animals and a few small duo-tone (orange and black) chapter headings. Sealy designed the cover and six full-page, two-color illustrations. 126 pages. 5-1/2 by 7-1/2 inches. First edition (no later printings noted; with the cover image of a fox holding hands with two cubs, later changed to a rooster, a pig, and a leopard; and a blue-cloth binding, which was later changed to green). Quite scarce as a first printing. This is a very good copy, with minor shelfwear to the spine ends. A small piece of the upper outer corner of pages 27/28 is missing, not affecting any text. Lacking the dust jacket.
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