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COWBOY LINGO. All About the Cowboy
by Adams, Ramon F
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/fair
- Seller
-
Santa Barbara, California, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1936. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/fair. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 257pp. Incl. index. This copy INSCRIBED BY ADAMS to ETHEL HOPKINS, "To "ma" Hopkins, a real westerner & the mother of the rodeo official organ, Hook & Horns. With warm good wishes from Ramon F. Adams, Tucson, Ariz. Jan.9th 1950." Ethel Hopkins ownership signature above inscription. Greenish cloth stamped in red. Endpapers a little darkened. Review copy notice on front paste-down. Dust jacket is spine faded with small tears, chips and edge wear, with long splits on spine folds, thus the front panel is nearly detached, now preserved in brodart dust jacket cover.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lost Horizon Bookstore
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 12189
- Title
- COWBOY LINGO. All About the Cowboy
- Author
- Adams, Ramon F
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1936
- Keywords
- Hook & Horns
Terms of Sale
Lost Horizon Bookstore
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged. We do not accept overseas orders for some countries and for some large and expensive items.
About the Seller
Lost Horizon Bookstore
Biblio member since 2010
Santa Barbara, California
About Lost Horizon Bookstore
We are a small, open shop in Santa Barbara and have been in the same location for over 30 years. We have a select inventory of used and rare books. We also carry original posters and prints, vintage photographs and ephemera. Open Tues.- Sat. 11-6, closed Sunday & Monday.
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- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...
- 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....
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
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