CATTLE COUNTRY OF PETER FRENCH
by FRENCH, GILES
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good Plus in Very Good Dustjacket
- Seller
-
Eugene, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Portland, OR: Binfords & Mort, 1965. STATED FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Very Good Plus in Very Good Dustjacket. Octavo. Brown cloth-covered boards. 167 pp. 48 pp. of black and white photographs. Ever so slight rubbing to extremities of book. Dustjacket price-clipped. INCLUDES LARGE FOLDING MAP, laid in. Sharp copy. Colorful story of Peter French and his contemporaries who developed the great stock ranches in Southeastern Oregon in the late 19th century and set the pattern for modern cow ranches. Hardworking and ambitious, French in just a few years won control of 200,000 acres of range land and thousands of head of cattle.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Aardvark Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 86388
- Title
- CATTLE COUNTRY OF PETER FRENCH
- Author
- FRENCH, GILES
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Plus in Very Good Dustjacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- STATED FIRST EDITION
- Publisher
- Binfords & Mort
- Place of Publication
- Portland, OR
- Date Published
- 1965
- Keywords
- Burns, Oregon; Blitzen Valley, Oregon; Harney County, Oregon; Eastern Oregon, Malheur, Pacific Northwest.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Western Americana;
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Eugene, Oregon
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Glossary
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- 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...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.