BIG JIM TURNER.
by Stevens, James
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good overall in light blue cloth (corners slightly bumped, previous owner's name) in a fair dust jacket with a tear to the u/light blue cloth (corners slightly bumped, previous owner's name) in a fair
- Seller
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Ione, California, United States
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About This Item
Garden City, NY:: Doubleday,, 1948.. Hardcover first edition -. Good overall in light blue cloth (corners slightly bumped, previous owner's name) in a fair dust jacket with a tear to the upper edge of front cover, other edgewear. Original price of $3.00 still present. . First printing. While the author disclaims this novel - set in the Northwest in the early 1900s - as autobiographical, he does admit that "Ranch hand, mule skinner, hard-rock driller, logger, big town truck teamster, Wobbly, hobo poet - I worked as my hero works." 275 pp. Dust jacket art by Paul Galdone.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bookfever.com, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 76826
- Title
- BIG JIM TURNER.
- Author
- Stevens, James
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover first edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Good overall in light blue cloth (corners slightly bumped, previous owner's name) in a fair dust jacket with a tear to the u
- Jacket Condition
- light blue cloth (corners slightly bumped, previous owner's name) in a fair
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Doubleday,
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, NY:
- Date Published
- 1948.
- Keywords
- northwest, proletarian novel, IWW, logging,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Historical Fiction;
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