My life in the Mountains and on the Plains
by Meriwether, David
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Near Fine
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SANTA BARBARA, California, United States
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About This Item
Norman, Ok: University of Oklahoma Press, 1965. Attractive, clean copy. Brown textured cloth with four colors used on spine with some gilt design is fresh, clean and sharp. Textblock tight and square. No markings. Price intact jacket has edgewear at base of spine with some minor paper loss and faint rubbing on rear panel. No chips, tears or creasing. Meriwether was a frontiersman, mountain man, plainsman and territorial governor of New Mexico enjoyed a career matched by few in his time in the first sixty years of the nineteenth century. This was dictated to his grandaughter at the age of 86 and the manuscript descended to a great granddaughter and its survival has made possible the publication of the important piece of Western Americana seventy nine years after it was written. In mylar. . First American Edition. Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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- Bookseller
- Timothy Norlen Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 006685
- Title
- My life in the Mountains and on the Plains
- Author
- Meriwether, David
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First American Edition
- Publisher
- University of Oklahoma Press
- Place of Publication
- Norman, Ok
- Date Published
- 1965
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Bookseller catalogs
- Western Americana; Modern First Editions;
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About the Seller
Timothy Norlen Bookseller
Biblio member since 2019
SANTA BARBARA, California
About Timothy Norlen Bookseller
I am a internet based bookstore that specializes in Modern First Editions, film sources, Mystery and Detective fiction and Western Americana. I have approximately 10,000 books, primarily first editions with about 1300 of them signed by the author. I try and stock only books that are sound, clean and attractive.
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