Desert Rough Cuts - A Haywire History of the Borego Desert. Pictures are by the author, many of them woodcuts
by Oliver, Harry
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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San Francisco, California, United States
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About This Item
Los Angeles: The Ward Ritchie Press, 1950. Hardcover. 64p., presswork on tobacco-brown paperstock (color of Bull Durham rolling papers) but alkaline and perfectly sound, bearing Oliver's excellent unconventional "woodcuts". Hardbound in 9.5x6 inch tobacco-paper boards (decorated) with off-white linen backstrip spine-titled with a nice bold spine label. Book itself is fine: perfectly sound, clean and unmarked, while the dust jacket has some chipping across the top edge and a split developing at the front-cover flap-fold. Also, interior inexpert tape reinforcement to top and bottom of spine and top front flap fold. In sum, very good. Characterizations of prospectors in the Borego/Death Valley wasteland. Like old Kashin, who doesn't mine gold but sells raw desert stuff to city folk, such as reptile skins to shoe factories in Milwaukee. Author Oliver "had my suspicions of him, and I wasn't far wrong. I found cactus stickers in some flat-sided pickles he'd preserved..
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- Bookseller
- Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 303524
- Title
- Desert Rough Cuts - A Haywire History of the Borego Desert. Pictures are by the author, many of them woodcuts
- Author
- Oliver, Harry
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- The Ward Ritchie Press
- Place of Publication
- Los Angeles
- Date Published
- 1950
- Bookseller catalogs
- Humor; California; Fine Printing, Fine Press; Southern California;
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Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB
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About the Seller
Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB
Biblio member since 2005
San Francisco, California
About Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB
Established in 1981 in San Francisco, we specialize in books and ephemeral materials related to the history of Labor and other social movements, including the struggles for Black and Chicano equality, the Gay liberation movement, Feminism, and Asian-American activism, as well as the Far Right. In recent years Bolerium has expanded into materials in non-western languages, especially from East Asia, and has also placed more emphasis on ephemera, with tens of thousands of original leaflets, pamphlets, and posters in stock. You can sign up for free email lists in our subject areas at www.bolerium.com. We are located in San Francisco at 2141 Mission, Suite 300 (between 17th & 18th St.). We're open by appointment only..
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