Horse and Buggy West: A Boyhood on the Last Frontier by O'Connor, Jack - 1969

Alfred A. Knopf, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Ex-Library copy with typical library marks and stamps. First edition. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Boards betray fading and nicks and other signs of wear and imperfection commensurate with age. Binding is tight and structurally sound. Interior pages with text without any extraneous marks. Dust jacket clipped; new mylar added to ensure future enjoyment. Secure packaging for safe delivery.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Alfred A. Knopf, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Ex-Library copy with typical library marks and stamps. First edition. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Boards betray fading and nicks and other signs of wear and imperfection commensurate with age. Binding is tight and structurally sound. Interior pages with text without any extraneous marks. New mylar added to ensure future enjoyment. Secure packaging for safe delivery.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Alfred A. Knopf, 1969. First edition. Hardcover. Good in Very Good DJ. First edition, good green cloth hardcover shows a crease along spine, bit of toning at endpapers, small soil spot at top of front endpaper, previous owner bookplate at half title and someinternal markings to text black, in very good + price-clipped dust jacket that shows a stickered price at front flap, light soil and couple of small closed edge tears. 302 pages with illustrations by Irving Boker and publisher promo sheet from publicity director laid in.Solid copy of this autobiogrphical work from the legendary writer and hunter that summons up the "..flavor of the frontier.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1969. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo, ix, 302 pages. In Good plus condition with a Very Good dust jacket. Spine is tan with green and brown print. Dust jacket in mylar. Price unclipped: "$5.95". Boards in green cloth. Text block has brown tinted top edge. Spotting to fore edge. Illustrated: b&w drawings. NOTE: Shelved in ND-HV. 1376496. FP New Rockville Stock.

Alfred A Knopf. Good in Good dust jacket. 1969. Hardcover. Ex-Library; 24 oz.; 302 pages; Ex library HC in protected DJ library markings/aged/slight spine lean good clean/tight reading copy. .

Knopf, 1969. Hardcover. O'Connor, Jack : Horse and Buggy West: A Boyhood on the Last Frontier. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1969. Second printing. Illus by Irving Boker. Size is octavo (8vo), 8.625"/22cm h. Bound in publisher's bright green cloth, gilt and red lettering to spine, red western landscape imprinted to front in red ink. Deckle-edge to fore and tail; top edge stained moss green. Matte b&w/color pictorial dj. Plain white endpapers. X pp prelim material, 302 numbered pp, plus four w/o nos. Author's note, twenty chaps; illus. Condition notes: Very good condition with merely good DJ/wrapper, unclipped and clean but with several chips and tears, esp at folds. Binding solid and just off square; pages clean. Former owner's name stamp discreetly to front flyleaf, otherwise no notes, highlighting or inscriptions. We personally inspect every book we offer.

Alfred A. Knopf, 1969. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good DJ. 2nd printing, very good green cloth hardcover is very good while showing some light trace wear and notation regarding O'Connor's death at other titles page, in very good price-clipped dust jacket cut just a tad short, that shows soil, mild exposure darkening along spine, piece of scotch tape reinforcement at spine head of jacket reverse, a blemish at top of front flap and some other light trace wear. Book shows small Lawrence Clark Powell book sticker at front pastedown, Powell's signature at front endpaper, sheet containing the book when it came from Powell's library, picture of O'Connor and another of what must be his wife, along with Knopf publicity flyer promoting the book. 302 pages with illustrations by Irving Boker. Still a pleasing copy of this autobiographical work from the noted author and sportsman with the interesting Lawrence Clark Powell connection.

Alfred A Knopf, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Very Good. The volume is lightly bumped on the spine ends. The price clipped ($5.95 price is affixed to the front flap) dust jacket, protected in a sleeve, has a gently sdun washed spine and the jacket is cut about 1/16" shorter than the book. Author's autobiography.

first edition first printing hardcover in dust jacket (Knopf, 1969); no prior owner marks; little age tone to text pages; offsetting to end pages; sound binding; clean cloth cover bright gilt titling, vivid decoration; dj edge wear: small nicks at corners; flap price present B5ambibab

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1969. Book. Illus. by Boker, Irving. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Signed by Jack O'Connor upon front free endpaper with "My Best Wishes." x, [3]-302 p. Black and white illustrations. "Jack O'Connor [1902-1978] grew up in Tempe, Arizona, in those days before World War I when a boys' own father had living memories of a truly 'wild' West. The Tempe [he] recalls was already in the twentieth century, but the flavor of the frontier still permeated daily life. And he summons it up for the reader - the humors, the absurdities, the gaucheries, the pleasures of the horse and buggy West - with a sort of affectionate chuckle that seems to say, just a bit sadly, that the old-fashioned is after all faintly ridiculous. His book is peopled with grandfathers unforgettable, with black-sheep uncles, with a fine and varied collection of Western characters who bring back to us an… Read More