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The Ghosts of Palo Duro Canyon: A Historical Novel About the Wild Plains Indians
by Robert S. Sprague
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Good +
- Seller
-
WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
Item Price
$12.00$8.40
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About This Item
Lawton, OK: Self Published by the Author, 1973 Self Published by the Author, Lawton, OK. 1973. Hardcover. First Edition. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Near Fine; slight foxing to textblock edges. DJ: Good +; NOT Price Clipped ($$5.95); chipping to head and upper tips; closed tear on top front cover; missing small pieces to DJ edges. Orange buckram boards and spine with bright gilt lettering on spine. Maps as endpapers on orange paper. 224 pp 8vo. A historical novel about the wild Plains Indians. A Comanche War Chief woos a beautiful Mexican girl captive in a true-to-history tale of the Plains Indians. This book tells the story of the last great battles of the Plains Indians and of a Mexican boy and girl who were captured in Old Mexico at the ages of nine and ten and brought as captives to Palo Duro Canyon. A clean very presentable copy in Brodart mylar jacket.
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- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 016251
- Title
- The Ghosts of Palo Duro Canyon: A Historical Novel About the Wild Plains Indians
- Author
- Robert S. Sprague
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Self Published by the Author
- Place of Publication
- Lawton, OK
- Date Published
- 1973
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Palo Duro Canyon, Plains Indians, Captives of the Indians, Indian Wars, General Sheridan, Buffalo herds, Indian Treaties, Great Plains fiction, Western fiction.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Historical Fiction;
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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- Buckram
- A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- 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...
- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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