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Endpapers as illustrations. Frontispiece of "Carrying Slim with them." Folding map bound in. No owner's or library markings. Pages all tight. See our photos. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 004507
Titel: Wild Horses and Gold: From Wyoming to the ...
Verlag: Farrar & Rinehart, New York
Erscheinungsdatum: 1932
Einband: Hardcover
Illustrator: Brown Paul
Zustand: Very Good
Auflage: Assumed first
Anbieter: James Cummings, Bookseller, Signal Mountain, TN, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 0008962
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Anbieter: ThriftBooksVintage, Tukwila, WA, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. First Edition. Dust jacket missing. First edition. Cover and binding are worn but intact. A reading copy in fair condition. Binding is exposed at front end paper, but all intact. Text is clear of marks and notations. Secure packaging for safe delivery. 1.95. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 1760150725
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Anbieter: Antiques & Art, Piedmont, SD, USA
hc. Zustand: good, ex-library, covers worn. 362 Account of horse-wranglers driving a herd of horses to the Klondike gold fields. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 27536
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Anbieter: Jennifer Duncan, North Aurora, IL, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1932, Farrar & Rinehart, HB (no dj, brown boards) 362pp. Illustrated by Paul Brown. VG (corners lightly rubbed, evidence of old price sticker on front cover, gilt titles on spine lightly faded, interior clean and unmarked, binding tight, fold-out map intact). Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9842
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Anbieter: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, USA
First Edition. First printing. Octavo (23cm); brown cloth hardcover; color pictorial endpapers; xiv,362pp; illus. Tight and straight, with five-line gift inscription on half-title, else clean and unmarked within. Solidly Very Good, lacking the dustwrapper. Slightly fictionalized account, based on interviews and diaries of the central character (called 'Kansas Gilbert" in the narrative), of an expedition to transfer a herd of wild horses from Wyoming to the Klondike, via the Edmonton Overland Route, during the Gold Rush of 1897. Attractively illustrated throughout by noted equestrian artist Paul Brown. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 61345
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Anbieter: Adams Shore Books, Quincy, MA, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Inscribed by Author(s). Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 001803
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Anbieter: Zephyr Used & Rare Books, Vancouver, WA, USA
8vo. xiii, [1], 362 pp. Frontisp., illusts., maps on endpapers. Tan cloth, brown lettering, w/ d.j. great wraparound cover art by Paul Brown of horses & cowboy (minor chipping head & foot of spine, couple closed tears), still VG/G copy, w/ former ownership markings on 2nd flyleaf, from the library of former California State Librarian, Gary Kurutz. Third Printing of this epic account of how some Wyoming horse wranglers started out to drive a herd of horses to the Klondike gold fields in 1897-98 because they heard they were fetching $ 100's of dollars apiece, based on the contemporaneous journal of Kansas Gilbert. Page (1889-1969) is perhaps best remembered for her "Wagons West: a Story of the Oregon Trail," which detailed and created the letters and journal of her great uncle Henry Page to his wife Mary as he headed West along the Oregon Trail during the California Gold Rush of '49, and she subsequently retraced the route in her Ford motor along the Trail. Scarce in original dustjacket. Not in Kurutz, Klondike & Alaska Gold Rushes, A Descriptive Bibliography. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 61701
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Anbieter: Watermark West Rare Books, Wichita, KS, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. 1st Edition. "Page.was born in Vermont in 1889 and received the A.B. degree from Vassar College in 1912.She came to [Basin,] Wyoming in 1927.[In 1932] Kansas Gilbert told her of his trek to the Yukon during the gold rush._____Many historical events are made to read like a novel." --Wheeler/Wyoming Writers p.56. ____________ "A narrative of the journey of "Kansas" Gilbert and his party driving a band of wild horses to the Klondike, 1897-98, based on Gilbert's diary and other contemporary sources." --Herd 1749. ___________ For "narrative" read novelization as there is much dialogue that could never have been recorded at the time. _____ With a fold-out map of the route._____Illustrated with chapter headings by Paul Brown. _____ Ends with a table of other gold rush expeditions encountered on the odyssey. _____ The true first edition, with the Farrar & Rinehart colophon at the copyright. _____ This jacket is very uncommon since the publisher employed a fragile stock._____ As a result, the jackets have not aged well._____ This copy is no exception._____ It is browned, with a 2" piece from the spine heel, edge chips and some old internal tape._____ . _____ ._____. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 18073
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