Prairie Schooner Detours
by Irene D. Paden
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/None
- Seller
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TORRINGTON, Wyoming, United States
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About This Item
New York, New York: The Macmillan Company, 1949. Book. Illus. by Drawings, Maps. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. G/none, used hc, vii-ix, 295pp. X-LIBRARY Tan colored cloth over boards with navy colored text on upper and spine; edge wear; tips bumped and frayed; shelf wear to head and tail of frayed spine. Front paste down and ffep have remnants of card pocket and date stamp sheet plus black stamps and numbers. The cut flaps of the dust jacket are adhered to the next two pages. Interior pages are clean, unmarked except title and pages 1, 37, 81, 119, 209 which have the library name stamp on them. Binding is tight. A good reading copy..
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- Bookseller
- PRAIRIE CREEK BOOKS & TEA LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 021805
- Title
- Prairie Schooner Detours
- Author
- Irene D. Paden
- Illustrator
- Drawings, Maps
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- None
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- The Macmillan Company
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York
- Date Published
- 1949
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- IRENE D. PADEN, Prairie Schooners, Trail Short Cuts, Western Expansion, Oregon-California Trails
Terms of Sale
PRAIRIE CREEK BOOKS & TEA LLC
10 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 10 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
PRAIRIE CREEK BOOKS & TEA LLC
Biblio member since 2012
TORRINGTON, Wyoming
About PRAIRIE CREEK BOOKS & TEA LLC
We specialize in western history, gun knife and hunting titles. Also try to stock Wyoming history titles. We have a walk-in store on US Hwy 26/85 the most direct route to Fort Laramie National History site..We have what I think is the largest seleciton of weapons titles in SE Wyoming, both new and used. Always looking for good used weapons titles.
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- The heel of the spine.
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- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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