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DESPERADOES.
by Hansen, Ron
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very near fine in a like dustjacket./like
- ISBN 10
- 0394503503
- ISBN 13
- 9780394503509
- Seller
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About This Item
New York:: Alfred A. Knopf,, 1979.. SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a like dustjacket.. First printing. Hansen's highly praised first novel - in it "one of the legends of [the West] comes alive again - the story of the notorious outlaw gang, the Daltons, from their hardscrabble beginnings to the final, terrible morning when all but one of the boys are shot down and snuffed out in the fatal raid on Coffeyville, Kansas." This book is told in the voice of the surviving brother - the youngest of the Daltons. INSCRIBED on the half title page and dated in the year of publication. 273 pp. Map endpapers. Wraparound dust jacket art by Wendell Minor.
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- Bookseller
- Bookfever.com, IOBA
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 84167
- Title
- DESPERADOES.
- Author
- Hansen, Ron
- Format/Binding
- SIGNED hardcover first edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
- Jacket Condition
- like
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0394503503
- ISBN 13
- 9780394503509
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf,
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date Published
- 1979.
- Keywords
- kansas, oklahoma, historical fiction, western fiction,
- Bookseller catalogs
- First book or first novel;
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