The Hanging Tree
by Dorothy M. Johnson
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/Very Good+
- Seller
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Portland, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
New York: Ballantine Books, 1957. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good+. First Edition. Burgundy cloth boards. Gilt on spine slightly rubbed. Interior is clean and crisp. Dust jacket has a little crease mark at the head of the spine and the rear panel shows some rubbing; very slight edgewear to the tail of the spine; not price clipped. DJ is in an archival mylar sleeve. 272 pages. 8 x 5.5 inches. Nine short stories and a novelette, The Hanging Tree, that is based on a true episode in Montana's gold mining past. "In all her stories, Dorothy Johnson writes with authenticity of Indians and of white men and of those whose lives were passed on the frontier of two civilizations." Contents: Lost Sister; The Last Boast; I Woke Up Wicked; The Man Who Knew the Buckskin Kid; The Gift by the Wagon; A Time of Greatness; Journal of Adventure; The Story of Charley; Blanket Squaw; The Hanging Tree.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Boyd Used & Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 009992
- Title
- The Hanging Tree
- Author
- Dorothy M. Johnson
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Ballantine Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1957
- Keywords
- fiction, Montana, western, Indians,
Terms of Sale
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Boyd Used & Rare Books
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- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- 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...
- 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....
- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- 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...
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