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Published by Viking, New York, 1938
Seller: AcornBooksNH, New Harbor, ME, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Gropper, William (illustrator). First Edition. First printing. A good copy in a good dust jacket with the price of $2.00 intact on the front flap. Book.
Published by Viking,/1938, 1st; grey covers with blue decorated endpapers; 8vo; 188 pp., New York, 1938
Seller: Truman Price & Suzanne Price / oldchildrensbooks, Monmouth, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition
/William Gropper, illustrator (illustrator). CONDITION: Good without jacket; faded spine with half inch tear in upper corner, clean, flat pages. Juvenile hardback. Like his pal, Pecos Bill, Bowleg was a true cowboy and son of the Old West. But Bowleg roped tuna and pumped bilgewater, and his destiny was to ride the seas, six-shooters, cowboy hat and all. ABE Heritage Seller; keyword: oldchildrensbooks. Graded to AB standards: /William Gropper, illustrator.
Published by Viking Press, NY, 1938
Seller: Ken Lopez Bookseller, ABAA (Lopezbooks), Hadley, MA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. WIth drawings by William Gropper. Very Good in Very Good (edge-worn) DJ. Unless otherwise noted, our first editions are first printings.
Published by Viking Press, NY, 1938
Seller: Yesterday's Books, Richmond, IN, U.S.A.
Book
Cloth. Condition: G+. Dust Jacket Condition: G/G+. William Gropper (illustrator). 188 pp, ill endpapers, rear inside hinge nicely repaired.
Published by Viking Press, New York, 1938
Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA, Washington, DC, U.S.A.
First Edition
Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. New York: Viking Press, 1938. First Edition. Octavo (20.5cm.); publisher's cloth in red pictorial dust jacket; [2],188pp.; illus., blue pictorial endpapers. General light shelf wear to jacket extremities, spine panel and spine cloth faded, old tape to both jacket flaps and pastedowns (tape yellowed and perished), else Very Good and sound overall. "Being The Adventures of a Wyoming Ranch-Hand as Recounted by the Best-Accredited Liars' Benches along the Entire Coast of Massachusetts in which New and Valuable Hints to the Whaleman, Fisherman, and Young Student of Deep-Water Navigation Are Freely Given, Along with a Narrative of Astonishing Exploits among the Creatures of the Deep and the Not-Too-Deep Including Sparm [sic] Whale, Swordfish, Blue Shark, Sea Sarpent [sic], Mermaid, and the Skipper's Wife as Well as Many Others.".
Published by The Viking Press, New York, 1938
Seller: Long Brothers Fine & Rare Books, ABAA, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. William Gropper (illustrator). First Edition. 8vo. Pp. [10], 11-188. Chapter heads by William Gropper. Decorated endpapers. Bound in blue cloth with illustration stamped in white on front board, white lettering on spine. Light age-toning-soiling to edges of cloth, else quite sharp. Former owner name of Paul Jordan Smith on the half-title. In the illustrated dust jacket that shows spine a tad faded, and a bit of edge-wear, notably to head and tail of spine. Price of $2.00 intact on front flap. Withal, a bright, presentable copy. Former owner Jordan-Smith was the American lecturer and scholar of English literature whose art movement, "Disumbrationism," was eventually revealed as a hoax. Wilbur Jordan Smith, his son, ran UCLA Special Collections from 1950s-1970 or so. The William Gropper dust jacket illustration conveys the tone of Digges' Cape Cod guide, depicting eponymous Bill astride an unhappy dolphin while waving his cowboy hat in glee. Dust jacket is now housed in a removable, clear archival sleeve. .