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BEN SNIPES: NORTHWEST CATTLE KING (SIGNED)
by Sheller, Roscoe
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Good Plus / Good Plus
- Seller
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Eugene, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Portland, OR: Binfords & Mort, Publishers, 1959. Third edition. Hardcover. Good Plus / Good Plus. Octavo, 8.75 in. x 5.75 in., pp. 205. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper. Illustrated with many black and white photographs. Yellow-green cloth boards with brown title and buckiing bronco to front, and brown title to spine. Light rubbing to extremities. Three nudged corners. Endpaper maps. Previous owner's name to top of front free endpaper. Verso of dustjacket is decoratedRubbing to dustjacket edges, with chips to top of spine and several small closed tears along top of dustjacket. Sunning to dustjacket spine. Price clipped. Protected in mylar. A fascinating and very human account of a great westerner (1835-1906) who realized his dream of a cattle empire through honest dealing and fair treatment. His operations, centered in Yakima Valley, Washington, and The Dalles, Oregon.
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- Bookseller
- Aardvark Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 87305
- Title
- BEN SNIPES: NORTHWEST CATTLE KING (SIGNED)
- Author
- Sheller, Roscoe
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good Plus / Good Plus
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Third edition
- Publisher
- Binfords & Mort, Publishers
- Place of Publication
- Portland, OR
- Date Published
- 1959
- Keywords
- Yakima Valley, Pacific Northwest history, Washington State history
- Bookseller catalogs
- Western Americana;
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- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- 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....
- 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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
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