Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1956. First Edition. First printing Near fine in red-orange cloth covered boards with yellow and black spine lettering with ink stains on both covers parallel to edges. In a very good+ dust jacket rubbed and flecked at the edges, corners and at the ends of the spine area. Despite the noted flaw on the covers of the boards and the jacket this is a handsome copy certainly worthy of collection.

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When These Thousand Hills was published in 1956, The Saturday Review proclaimed it to be "so compelling that it is hard indeed to set aside until it has been devoured." Conjuring up the ephemeral world of cattle ranchers in the 1880s, this intimate saga delights in a Montana community's boisterous, wanderlusting eccentrics as they chase after love and their unbridled ambitions. At its center is Lat Evans, good-hearted and yet seduced by the possibilities for prosperity in his new life; gradually he discerns how the perils of the natural world, and most especially human nature, can conspire to frustrate a young man's best intentions. A lively, quixotic revisit to our historic youth, this literary classic deftly captures western drama at its finest, with all its accompanying toils of the heart.

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Bookseller: Town's End Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: TB04623
Title: These Thousand Hills
Author: Guthrie, A. B., Jr
Book Condition: Used
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Place of Publication: Boston
Date Published: 1956

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