The Big Sky
by Guthrie, Jr., A.B
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States
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About This Item
New York: William Sloane Assoc., 1947. First Edition, First Printing (stated). . Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Edition, First Printing stated. Hard cover 8vo in rust cloth w/gray spine medallion. Good/ No DJ. Cloth stained and edgeworn, 1/4" split in cloth at crown w/lightly pulled text block, front hinge a little loose, owner stamp front endpaper, else Fine and unmarked. 386pp. Author's FIRST book.
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
- Basement Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 039799
- Title
- The Big Sky
- Author
- Guthrie, Jr., A.B
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing (stated).
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- William Sloane Assoc.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1947
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
- Keywords
- FICTIO0N WEST US
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature; Western Americana;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Basement Books
Biblio member since 2003
Albuquerque, New Mexico
About Basement Books
BASEMENT BOOKS, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, specializes in hard-to-find non-fiction, Western Americana, History, and First Edition mysteries and literature.
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- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
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- Spine
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- First Edition
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- Jacket
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- Cloth
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