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Carrington: A Novel of the West
by Michael Straight (AUTHOR SIGNED)
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, Publisher, 1960 Alfred A. Knopf, Publisher, New York. 1960. Hardcover. Stated First Edition. Signed by the author on the FFFP. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good +; light bumping to head, tail, and upper tips; light shelfwear to board bottom edges. DJ: Very Good +; NOT Price Clipped ($4.50); light sunfading to spine; light toning to top edge of DJ an flap fold edges. Beige cloth boards and spine with green and red decorations on the spine with title outlined in green shadowbox; title and red sword on front board. Clean internals. Interior hinges are sound and not split. 374 pp 8vo. This is a historical novel of the life of COL Henry Carrington, the senior officer in the Fetterman massacre in 1866. Although LTC Fetterman was acting in defiance of direct orders, Carrington took the blame and was accused of cowardice and abandoned by friends and his wife. The author captures the smell of battle and his insight into the lives of the men and women in a tormented battalion on a hazardous frontier make this a novel to rate with other first-rate novels of the West. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.
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- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 014565
- Title
- Carrington: A Novel of the West
- Author
- Michael Straight (AUTHOR SIGNED)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf, Publisher
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1960
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- COL Henry Carrington, western fiction, military fiction, Indian Raids, Fetterman massacre, Indian fight, LTC W.J. Fetterman, Sioux Indians, Dakotas,
Terms of Sale
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or in the unfortunate event, damaged. All books are packed and wrapped with care to avoid shifting during shipment and edge/tip strikes during the mailing process.
About the Seller
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Biblio member since 2018
WINFIELD, Kansas
About Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.
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- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Tail
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- Brodart
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