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Old Buck and I, Our Golden Years, 1886-1898: A Cow Country Idyl. Signed copy.
by [Texas]. RAHT, Carlysle Graham, with illustrations by m. Loys Raymer
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, United States
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About This Item
Odessa, Texas: The Rahtbooks Company (1964). "Edition DeLuxe," this copy with generic presentation signed by the author at a tipped in leaf adjacent to the front pastedown. 8vo, xv & 208 pp, with frontis from photograph & 16 unnumbered pages of illustrations. Publisher's gilt lettered blue cloth, in pictorial dust jacket
One corner bruised, previous owner's name, place & historic price in ink at tipped in leaf, minor foxing at the edges of the text block, otherwise very good in worn, browned & soiled dust jacket, with tears, small losses & brief archival tissue repairs on the verso.
"Old Buck and I is not just a story about a boy and his horse it's a remarkable chronicling of Raht's recollections of his younger days on his father's West Texas ranch" ~Excerpted from the dust jacket
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- Bookseller
- Citation Books, ABAA/ ILAB
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1387
- Title
- Old Buck and I, Our Golden Years, 1886-1898: A Cow Country Idyl. Signed copy.
- Author
- [Texas]. RAHT, Carlysle Graham, with illustrations by m. Loys Raymer
- Illustrator
- m. Loys Raymer.
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Rahtbooks Company
- Place of Publication
- Odessa, Texas
- Date Published
- (1964)
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Henrietta, Texas, Ranching, Block Bar Ranch, horse, horses
- Bookseller catalogs
- Trade Catalogues, Advertising; Biography, Autobiography; Horses; Agriculture, Farming, Ranching;
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- Jacket
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