XIT: Being a New and Original Exploration, in Art and Words, Into the Life and Times of the American Cowboy
by Pirtle, Caleb and the Texas Cowboy Artists Association
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- Seller
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Staten Island, New York, United States
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About This Item
Birmingham, Alabama: Oxmoor House, Inc., 1975. Hardcover, large format square quarto in original non price-clipped dust-jacket. 156pp., Bibliography, Catalogue of paintings, sketches and sculptures appended, unpaginated. #21615 of 50,000 copies. Signed by Pirtle on numbered limitation card on front pastedown. First editiom. Copiously illustrated with color paintings and monochrome vignette sketches. Jacket adhered to spine at binder, as per usual with this edition. No previous ownership marks. Dust-jakcet complete with no chips or tears. A very clean, square, fresh and unmarked copy. Near fine in a near fine dust-jacket. A very large, heavy book, Priority and International orders will require additional postage. . First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall.
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- Bookseller
- Great Expectations Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 011345
- Title
- XIT: Being a New and Original Exploration, in Art and Words, Into the Life and Times of the American Cowboy
- Author
- Pirtle, Caleb and the Texas Cowboy Artists Association
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Oxmoor House, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- Birmingham, Alabama
- Date Published
- 1975
- Keywords
- Western American Art, Cowboys
- Bookseller catalogs
- Art;
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- First Edition
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- Fine
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- Folio
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- Jacket
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