Early Days of a Cowboy on the Pecos
by Hinkle, James F
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very good +/Very good +
- Seller
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Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
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About This Item
Santa Fe, NM: Stagecoach Press, 1965. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Very good +/Very good +. 47pp. Duodecimo [17.7cm]. Dark gray cloth over boards. Author name and title stamped in gold on the spine. Spine slightly rolled and subtly bumped at the head end. Mustard yellow dust jacket, with black lettering. Spine of dust jacket beginning to fade. Previous owner's sticker on the front free end paper. From Dust Jacket: One of the scarcest and best accounts of early cowboy life in New Mexico-- here reprinted in an edition limited to 550 copies and the type forms melted. James F. Hinkle (1864-1951) was Governor of New Mexico in 1923. He was a cowboy in the Pecos River valley near Roswell in the years following 1885. In 1937 Hinkle wrote this story of his ranch years and privately printed 35 copies of the little book as a gift to friends. It has been given a high rating by bibliographers who have compiled lists of important books on the Southwest including Ramon Adams, Wright Howes, and J.C. Dykes. This edition, the only one issued since the original, contains all of the text and illustrations of the first edition.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 58644
- Title
- Early Days of a Cowboy on the Pecos
- Author
- Hinkle, James F
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good +
- Jacket Condition
- Very good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Limited Edition
- Publisher
- Stagecoach Press
- Place of Publication
- Santa Fe, NM
- Date Published
- 1965
- Keywords
- Pecos; Rowel; New Mexico; James F. Hinkle; Western Americana
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About the Seller
Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2006
Salt Lake City, Utah
About Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
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