The Big Sky (First Edition, inscribed)
by A.B. Guthrie Jr
- Used
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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About This Item
Basis for the 1952 Howard Hawks film, scripted by Dudley Nichols, starring Kirk Douglas as a frontier fur trapper coming to the aid of scene-stealer Arthur Hunnicutt. Jacket art by Alan Haemer.
Very Good plus in a Very Good plus, price-clipped and lightly spine-faded dust jacket.
Synopsis
A classic portrait of America's vast frontier that inspired the Western genre in fiction. Originally published more than fifty years ago, The Big Sky is the first of A. B. Guthrie Jr.'s epic adventure novels set in the American West. Here he introduces Boone Caudill, Jim Deakins, and Dick Summers: traveling the Missouri River from St. Louis to the Rockies, these frontiersmen live as trappers, traders, guides, and explorers. The story centers on Caudill, a young Kentuckian driven by a raging hunger for life and a longing for the blue sky and brown earth of big, wild places. Caught up in the freedom and savagery of the wilderness, Caudill becomes an untamed mountain man, whom only the beautiful daughter of a Blackfoot chief dares to love.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Royal Books, Inc. (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 131181
- Title
- The Big Sky (First Edition, inscribed)
- Author
- A.B. Guthrie Jr
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- William Sloane
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1947
- Keywords
- Books into Film | Literature | Autograph Material
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature; Books into Film;
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- 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...
- Jacket
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- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...