Ranch Under the Rimrock

McCALL, Dorothy Lawson

Verlag: Binfords & Mort, Portland, 1968

Beschreibung

Foreword by Mark O. Hatfield. 8vo. Brown cloth with orange lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xiii, 166pp. Illustrations, pictorial endpapers. Near fine/very good. Faint jacket edgewear. A handsome and tight first edition of this memoir of life on a central Oregon ranch in the early 20th century. Choice autograph addition: Tipped facing the title page -- extra-illustrated -- is a Typed Note Signed from the book's foreword writer Mark O. Hatfield, 1p, 6½" X 8", Washington, DC, 21 May 1984. Addressed to Ralph G. Newman (1912-98, founder of Chicago's Abraham Lincoln Book Shop). Near fine. On "United States Senate" letterhead, Hatfield sends "Many, many thanks for sending along a copy of Abraham Lincoln, The Man Behind the Myths. With each new book on the President I find more reasons to study Lincoln carefully, as is true with almost all the former Presidents." Signed simply "Mark" in black fineline; he also crosses out the typed "Mr. Newman" and writes in "Ralph." Hatfield (1922-2011) served as Oregon's governor (1959-67) and senator (1967-97). Newman's large custom Bernhardt Wall-engraved Lincoln-theme bookplate graces the front pastedown. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 45061

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Ranch Under the Rimrock

Verlag: Binfords & Mort, Portland

Erscheinungsdatum: 1968

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Schutzumschlag

Signiert: Signatur des Verfassers

Auflage: 1. Auflage