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Ranch: Portrait of a Surviving Dream
by Witney, Dudley (Photographs); Text by Moira Johnston
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0385189168
- ISBN 13
- 9780385189163
- Seller
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Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
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About This Item
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1983. First edition. Hardcover. 237pp. Quarto [30 cm] Tan cloth over boards with a gilt stamped title on the backstrip, and an embossed title on the front board. Very good. The covers are slightly cocked, and there is a contemporary gift inscription on the front free endsheet. In a very good, price-clipped dust jacket. There are numerous light scratches on the surface, and there are a handful short chips and closed tears in the edges. With a selection of 100 color and 111 duotone photographs produced during Witney's three-year odyssey through America's western ranch lands.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 45566
- Title
- Ranch: Portrait of a Surviving Dream
- Author
- Witney, Dudley (Photographs); Text by Moira Johnston
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- ISBN 10
- 0385189168
- ISBN 13
- 9780385189163
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Company, Inc
- Place of Publication
- Garden City
- Date Published
- 1983
- Keywords
- Dudley Witney; photography; Moira Johnston; cowboys
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About the Seller
Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2006
Salt Lake City, Utah
About Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
Ken Sanders Rare Books is a full service antiquarian bookshop in downtown Salt Lake City, Utah. We carry an ever-changing inventory of art, ephemera, maps, photography, and postcards in addition to a vast selection of used and rare books along with a few new books. We actively purchase and appraise books in all fields.
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- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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