OBSCURE DESTINIES by Cather, Willa - 1932

New York, NY: Vintage Books USA. 1974. Mass-market paperback. Good. No dust jacket.. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 229 p. Audience: General/trade. . previous owner's name. Clean, tight pages. No bent corners. No remainder mark. Worn cover, old book .

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Used - Very Good. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1974. Paperback. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Center Point Large Print, 2006-02. Library Binding. Used: Good.

UsedGood. 1941 6th hardcover printing. NO DJ. Noticeably worn bind w/ sun fading/inscribing. Text is mostly clean & readable.

Alfred A. Knopf. Collectible - Acceptable. First edition copy. Collectible - Acceptable. Book Good. No dust jacket. Owner's name on inside.

New York: Vintage/ Random, 1974. 1st Edition thus . Soft cover. Very Good. 14300 shelf. #V-179. Mass market paperback, pictorial white covers, faint spine crease. Solid. a few green inked marks to text. No names or notes. Contains: Neighbour Rosicky, Old Mrs. Harris, Two Friends

University of Nebraska Press. Used - Very Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

Alfred A. Knopf, 1932. First Edition. hardcover. Good. 0x0x0. First edition. Bound in publisher's cloth. Hardcover. No dust jacket. Good binding and cover Crown of spine chipped.\ Clean, unmarked pages. Spine sunned. Name on fep.

Freddy The Cowboy. Hardcover. By Walter R. Brooks, Stated First Edition 1950, Alfred A. Knopf. ILLUSTRATED BY KURT WIESE. EX-LIB. Library bound. White titling on spine. Multi-hued, Raspberry, orange and lavender graphic cloth cover treatment. Square corners. Good Condition /No dust jacket is included. A clean, solid copy.

Doubleday & Company, Inc., NY, 1958; First Edition; Signed; 8vo, 448 pages. Historical novel of the daredevil adventures of early Texas explorer Louis Juchereau St. Denis, by author/screenwiter Paul Wellman, who was a staff writer at Warner Bros. from 1936-1944, and MGM from 1944-1946. Numerous Wellman Westerns were adapted to the screen, including his 1952 novel "The Comancheros," which was made into the popular movie of the same name starring John Wayne. Very Good Plus, exceptionally clean, crisp and bright, in a Very Good dust jacket that has a single small chip at the lower left shoulder of the spine panel. Signed on the half-title page by the author.

New York: The Century Company, 1913. First edition, third issue in light green rough cloth stamped in green and black. Slightly smaller than the 2 issues that precede it with boards measuring approximately 4.75 x 6.75" (first issue is a little wider and 7" tall). [Woodbridge 109]. Crimp to base of spine otherwise bright and near fine lacking dust jacket.

London, Ward Lock and Co., 1959, hardcover, 159 pp, First Edition, First Printing, Good condition, lacking dustjacket. Straight and firmly bound, corner bumps, light spine-end wear, spine darkened, rubs to boards, remainder mark to bottom edge, stamped initials to front endpaper, binding slightly shaken but holding firm. The California author of over 1000 books under dozens of pseudonyms presents the tale of a young cowboy who becomes an outlaw for the love of a woman and, with the help of a friend and the local cattlemen, takes on an established crime combine.

Mulford,Clarence Edward: Bar-20, 1907 First Edition, The Outing Publishing Company, New York. Title page states MCMVII. HOPALONG CASSIDY #1. Illustrated by N.C. Wyeth and F.E. Schoonover. Used. Good Condition/ No Dust Jacket. Red boards with Large gilt titles. Black titling on spine. Hinges cracked. N.C. Wyeth Illustration at center front shows Hopalong "Hoppy" Cassidy sitting on a barn wall. Plot summary: "In Bar-20, the first Hopalong Cassidy novel by Clarence E. Mulford, Cassidy could fan a gun like a Billy the Kid... Six rounds in three seconds was his slowest time. No one in the state of Texas could beat him. Until he met Slim Travennes, head of the Sandy Creek Vigilante Committee. Slim was snake-fast. No man could go up against him and live. No man. Hoppy could stand or die. He had no other choice. None at all".

First printing, "Facsimile Anniversary Edition" issued twenty years after first edition. This edition identical in every way, with an added ten-page Afterward by the author providing full context and background of the book's writing and publication.
This copy also includes an affectionate inscription to a friend of the author, dated February 18, 1994, which is surely close to the publication date.
Condition is Near Fine (NF), dust jacket NOT price-clipped, slight sunning to dj spine, a couple tiny spots on rear panel. See photos for details, and feel free to inquire further.
A lovely signed anniversary copy of this important 20th-century novel.

New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good-/Good-. Cloth in DJ; 230pp; DJ chipped, edgeworn, clipped (price still visible) & protected by mylar sleeve, slight slant, boards slightly edgeworn, clean & bright, text unmarked, binding is sound, VG-/Good- condition. Scarce, vintage novel set in the Arkansas hills. Illustrated with drawings by Harold West. From front of DJ: "The story of a very human man, his life on a farm deep in the Arkansas hills, his affection for his family, his animals, and his land -- with one of the most heartwarming mare and colt stories ever written.

FIRST EDITION in dust jacket. The book is about fine - sqaure and unread; name on FFEP. The unclipped dust jacket has minor edge wear. This book, because of its size, is difficult to find in collectable condition.

8 pics-DJ lean 7 shiny w/a little edge wear & a small piece torn at top edge (which is present); otherwise very good with very minimal tanning; book clean & sharp w/light shelf wear; binding solid; no cracks; pages pristine; nice copy of an old RARE book

Albuquerque and Santa Fe,NM; (1982): The New Book league/the Lightning Tree. Limited Edition. Octavo. Publisher's copy, limited to 500 copies signed by the authors and and six others who helped in the production of the book, 222pp. with a foreword by Lawrence Clark Powell and inscribed by him at the end of his foreword, specially bound in brown cloth backed in beige cloth, spine lettering gilt, just a bit of finger soiling to spine otherwise near fine in very good slipcase with rubbing to corners.