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The Big Sky
by Guthrie, A.B., Jr
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
- Seller
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Chico, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: William Sloane Associates, 1947. The first title in Guthrie's series of six Western novels. This is a Near Fine copy of the First Edition [stated "First Printing"] mismatched with a later dustjacket. Reddish-brown cloth binding with titling on the spine in a pale blue. Clean text; 386 pages. Light rub to the margins and minor creas to two tips. The dustjacket is complete and unclipped, but shows edgewear and has several chips (spine and corners of the rear panel). In an archival plastic protector,. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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
- Quercus Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 006134
- Title
- The Big Sky
- Author
- Guthrie, A.B., Jr
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- William Sloane Associates
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1947
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Literature;
Terms of Sale
Quercus Rare Books
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About the Seller
Quercus Rare Books
Biblio member since 2006
Chico, California
About Quercus Rare Books
Quercus Books seeks out and provides to the discriminating Reader or Collector noteworthy books in the First Edition. Our particular focus is on Modern Literature (roughly from the Second World War to the present) and Irish Authors. We also retain a small stock of non-fiction titles, mostly in the fields of American Western History, American Indians, and the American Civil War. Member of IOBA - the Independent Online Booksellers Association.
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