Description:
Hardcover Cloth 258 pages. Condition Fine Dust Jacket Very Good. Stated first edition 1968. Elegant brown boards and gilt embossing shows off this Clean, tight, square copy with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Book Well kept and carefully stored in unread condition. No shelf wear with unbruised tips. Edges have the usual yellowing and spotting. Pages are lightly toned. An unclipped dust jacket with slight shelf wear - a few scrapes, stains, scratches, wrinkles and chips. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy.
More than 700 entries, of books, contributions to the books of others, magazine articles and stories, pamphlets, and his Sunday newspaper column 1939-1964 . Dobie was a chronicler of the cattle kingdom and a significant interpreter of the oral tradition, as well as a historian, bibliographer, teacher, and man of letters.