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Riders by Night (Silver Star Western)
by Nelson Nye
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
-
WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
Item Price
A$75.93A$53.15
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About This Item
New York, NY: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1950 Dodd, Mead and Company, New York. 1950. Hardcover. First Edition (NAP). Book is tight, square, and unmarked but for F/O bookplate on the front pastedown. Book Condition: Very Good; light shelfwear to head, tail, and lower tips; light soiling to endpapers and textblock edges. DJ: Very Good: NOT Price Clipped ($2.00); light wear to head, tail, and tips; slight rubbing to spine. Brown buckram boards and spine with bright silver lettering on the spine; Dodd Meade Silver Star on the front board; silver bordering. Clean internals; internal hinges are sound and not split. 213 pp 12mo. Kurt Cardigan was known the length of the Spanish Trail as the finest horse breeder within 500 miles. A law unto himself, when Kurt spoke in that lawless land, men harkened, remembering his bitter fast way with a pistol. This Kurt Cardigan's story-the story of a hard-riding man of the range who let an itch for a woman undermine his good judgment. A rugged epic of the violent days in old Tucson in the 1880s. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 013543
- Title
- Riders by Night (Silver Star Western)
- Author
- Nelson Nye
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Dodd, Mead and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1950
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Nelson Nye, Kurt Cardigan, Riders by Night, western fiction, Old Tucson, horse breeder, Quarter Horses
Terms of Sale
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or in the unfortunate event, damaged. All books are packed and wrapped with care to avoid shifting during shipment and edge/tip strikes during the mailing process.
About the Seller
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Biblio member since 2018
WINFIELD, Kansas
About Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- Buckram
- A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
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