Valley of Vanishing Men
by Brand, Max
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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About This Item
London: Hodder and Stoughton. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. (1949). Hardcover. No signatures. Some spots of foxing to page edges. Some rubbing to ends of dust-jacket spine and corners of dust-jacket. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.; 1949 first UK edition, of a title first published in the US in 1947. 224 pages. Red cloth boards with white lettering on spine and front board. Page dimensions: 184 x 121mm. A Western novel. "It was one of those gorges which seem to have been ploughed through the mountains with some vast mechanical instrument that cuts with equal ease through hard and soft." - the opening sentence. "Here is all the punch and prowess of men who ride hard and draw the gun quickly. It is mighty tough in this West." - John o'London's Weekly, quoted on front flap of dust-jacket. Max Brand is one of the pseudonyms of Frederick Schiller Faust (1892-1944). .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 22362
- Title
- Valley of Vanishing Men
- Author
- Brand, Max
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- Publisher
- Hodder and Stoughton
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- (1949)
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Renaissance Books
Biblio member since 2005
Dunedin, New Zealand
About Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
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