Thunder in the Earth
by Lanham, Edwin (1904-1979)
- Used
- Acceptable
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Acceptable
- Seller
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Argillite, Kentucky, United States
Item Price
$20.00$18.00
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About This Item
NY: Harcourt, 1943. 1st Edition. Hardcover_cloth. Acceptable. THIRD PRINTING. 5.5"X8.25" 570 numb. pgs. Green cloth w/faded letters to spine. Spine slanted, soiling to covers and pages. First & last fep missing. Edge wear w/fraying and rubs. Secure ship w/track #. Lanham tells a gripping story, but what really makes the book is its full, detailed workings of the oil fields, as glamorous and swashbuckling a tale as any of the older frontiers. The time is the 1930's -- it is an obviously authentic account of modern oil rushes, down in Texas, of one village and particularly of Cobb Walters, farmer's son, and the effects on both Cobb and the village when oil is struck. Cobb, likable and a dynamo of energy, bites off more than he can chew, and the drama works up to a crescendo, a murder, an acquittal. The material is fascinating, the characters are well done -- it's a full canvas, a corking good story and first rate Americana. Some ultra-conservatives may balk at the inevitable iniquity and corruption, but most readers will agree that here is a lusty, zestful novel, thoroughly worth reading.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Blacks Bookshop (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 16838
- Title
- Thunder in the Earth
- Author
- Lanham, Edwin (1904-1979)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover_cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Harcourt
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1943
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- Acceptable
- A non-traditional book condition description that generally refers to a book in readable condition, although no standard exists...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...