The Ox-Bow Incident
by Clark, Walter Van Tilburg
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- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket
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Charlottesville, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
E-049: Random House. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1940. First Edition; Third Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Random House. 1940. 309 pgs. Third Printing. Signed and inscribed with a lengthy inscription by Van Tilburg Clark on the FFEP. The DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ. No ownership marks present. Light foxing present to the endpapers. The text is clean and free of marks, binding tight and solid, boards have light shelf wear present. Set in 1885, The Ox-Bow Incident is a searing and realistic portrait of frontier life and mob violence in the American West. First published in 1940, it focuses on the lynching of three innocent men and the tragedy that ensues when law and order are abandoned. The result is an emotionally powerful, vivid, and unforgettable re-creation of the Western novel, which Clark transmuted into a universal story about good and evil, individual and community, justice and human nature.E-49; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 309 pages; Signed by Author .
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- Bookseller
- Last Exit Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 64824
- Title
- The Ox-Bow Incident
- Author
- Clark, Walter Van Tilburg
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition; Third Printing
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- E-049
- Date Published
- 1940
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