Cattle-Ranch to College: The True Tale of a Boy's Adventures in the Far West
by Russell Doubleday
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Good+
- Seller
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Charlottesville, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
E-026: Doubleday Page and Co.. Good+. 1927. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Doubleday, Page & Company. 1927. 347 pgs. Illustrated with Black & White Plates. Later Printing. Signed and inscribed with a lengthy note from Russell Doubleday on the FFEP. Bound in decorated cloth with gilt titles present to the spine. Boards have wear present to the extremities of the boards. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. A fictionalized account of the life of a young lawyer named Tom McKee whom Russell Doubleday had met in his mid-20s. They spent a great amount of time together and Tom checked up one everything in the book as Doubleday had never visited the West. E-026; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .
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- Bookseller
- Last Exit Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 60422
- Title
- Cattle-Ranch to College: The True Tale of a Boy's Adventures in the Far West
- Author
- Russell Doubleday
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Publisher
- Doubleday Page and Co.
- Place of Publication
- E-026
- Date Published
- 1927
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- Cloth
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- FFEP
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- Spine
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- 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...