GHOSTOWN OF WHITE OAKS.
by Rakocy, Bill, author and illustrator; Mario Parra, illustrator
- Used
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very good in glossy illustrated wrappers (some curling to the edges of the covers, spot near top edge of first page)
- ISBN 10
- 1888711019
- ISBN 13
- 9781888711011
- Seller
-
Ione, California, United States
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About This Item
El Paso, TX:: Bravo Press,, (1998). SIGNED first edition -. Very good in glossy illustrated wrappers (some curling to the edges of the covers, spot near top edge of first page). First printing, a trade paperback original. A history of the town of White Oaks, New Mexico, from its founding through its boom years as a mining town - the cover calls it "A True Western American Story . A Town Called Hearts Desire" Illustrated throughout with watercolors in full color (including one of Billy the Kid), maps, many drawings, reproductions of vintage photographs and modern photographs. SIGNED on the first page by the author/illustrator Bill Rakocy with the words 'from Old White Oaks' and dated in 2003. Oblong format. 175 pp.
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- Bookseller
- Bookfever.com, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 89008
- Title
- GHOSTOWN OF WHITE OAKS.
- Author
- Rakocy, Bill, author and illustrator; Mario Parra, illustrator
- Format/Binding
- SIGNED first edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good in glossy illustrated wrappers (some curling to the edges of the covers, spot near top edge of first page)
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 1888711019
- ISBN 13
- 9781888711011
- Publisher
- Bravo Press,
- Place of Publication
- El Paso, TX:
- Date Published
- (1998)
- Keywords
- new mexico, southwest, mining town,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Western Americana;
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