john l mccarty (89 risultati)

Condizione: New. McCarty, Peter (illustratore).

Condizione: As New. McCarty, Peter (illustratore). Unread book in perfect condition.

Soft cover. Condizione: Near Fine. No Jacket. Bugbee, Harold D. (illustratore). First Paperback Edition. Near-fine condition softcover book, first paperback edition by OU Press, 1998. NOTE on copyright: the first paperback edition is 1998, not 1988 or 1968. 1998.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Hardcover with dust jacket. Pages are clean and unmarked. Covers show minor shelving wear. Binding is tight, hinges strong. Dust jacket shows edge wear. Book is slightly shelf-cocked.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!

Reprint of the 1968 enlarged edition. xvi, 287 pages. Paperback: H 21.5cm x L 13.75cm. Stiff paper covers lightly rubbed, minor bumping and touch of soiling at bottom corner of front cover and at bottom corners of first several leaves. Interior pages are otherwise bright and clean and binding is still crisp. Else a near fine copy. Foreword by C.L. Sonnichsen with chapter decorations (illustrations) by Harold D. Bugbee. ISBN 0806120894.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. Bugbee, Harold D. (illustratore). 2nd Printing. Signed by the author with an insciption in 1946. Very good condition hardcover book, with no dustjacket; light evidence of reading/handling; wear at top and bottom of spine. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 2nd Edition. Cream colored boards in mylar protected, illustrated dust jacket. Enlarged edition. Two minor bumps on corners and bottom edge. Light wear on top & bottom of spine. Photographs, illustrations and map. Bibliography and index. VERY GOOD+ in VERY GOOD+ dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fair - Cash. No Jacket. Heavier wear to the cover, corners and edges. There is soiling to the cover and pages, with creases and some tearing. Corners have some heavy rubbing and fraying, the boards are exposed. Previous Owners info/note is written inside. Stock photos may not look exactly like the book.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. D.j., 287 pp., illus. by Bugbee, index. Enlarged edition with new section on Cal Farley's Boys Ranch. Guns #1386-the first complete history of this wild cow town. It tells about its gunmen & gun battles & some of the other outlaws of the Southwest. Panhandle history, much on the XIT & other ranches.

Condizione: As New. McLean, Jason (illustratore). Unread book in perfect condition.

Condizione: New. McLean, Jason (illustratore).

Condizione: New.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good+. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good -. First Edition. 277 pages, frontis, map end-papers, illustrations, edge wear to jacket with tape repair to upper and lower jacket spine, SIGNED by the author, First complete history of this wild cow town, it tells about its gunmen and gun battles and some of the outlaws of the South West. Billy the Kid. Information and convincing interpretations of the economic and social history of the High Plains. Herd 1371, Six Guns 1386.

Pamphlet. Condizione: Very Good. Vol 15, No 2, pp. 320-344, Photos in 2nd paper, Extracted from orig vol, then Recased in Orig Journal Covers, 4to, VG (2 Different Papers).

Condizione: New. In.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. Harold D. Bugbee (illustratore). 1st Edition. McCarty, John L. Maverick Town: The Story of Old Tascosa. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1946. First Edition. 8vo. xiii, 277, [3] pp. Frontispiece, illustrations, map. Original publisher's tan cloth, lettered and decorated in red on spine and front board with a pictorial vignette of a mounted cowboy on the front cover; top edge stained red. Condition: Very Good. Cloth is clean and bright with light shelf wear; spine lettering crisp and unfaded. Mild rubbing to extremities, with minor bumping to the spine ends and corner tips. A few scattered faint spots to the spine and rear board. Text block clean and tight, hinges sound. Top edge stain still vivid red. Without dust jacket. A solid, presentable copy of the true first edition. The standard history of Tascosa, the Panhandle's most notorious frontier cow town. McCarty drew on the recollections of surviving Tascosa figures and on his own background as editor of the Dalhart Texan to assemble what remains the foundational treatment of the town's brief, violent flowering and its decline after the railroad bypassed it. Of particular interest for the LS, LIT, and XIT ranch material, the 1886 Tascosa gunfight, and the era's tensions between large outfits and small-pasture men. Listed in Jenkins, Cracker Barrel Chronicles (3624) and Herd (1371).

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: None. First Edition. A clean, tight, unmarked copy.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. University of Oklahoma, OK. Tascosa is the former capital of 10 counties in the Texas Panhandle. The town emerged briefly in the 1880s as an economic rival of Dodge City, Kansas. The town saw the likes of Billy the Kid, Pat Garrett and John Chisum. Tascosa is now a ghost town. This is the enlarged edition which includes a chapter on Cal Farley's Boys Ranch which opened on the town's site in 1939 for troubled youth. The book was originally printed in 1946. Very good copy of the hard cover book in a very good dust jacket. 287 pages.

hc. 278 Enlarged edition of the rise and fall of old Tascosa,at one time the leading cow town in the Texas Panhandle signed, very good, first edition.

Hardbound. Condizione: Good. 3rd Printing. Description: This copy is Signed and dated, with a personalized inscription by the author. Dust jacket and title page art, plus chapter illustrations by Harold D Bugbee. A history of Tascosa, Texas, which was once in the center of the competition for land between the Mexicans, the cattlemen, and the homesteaders. Ranchmen such as Colonel Charles Goodnight, John Chisum, Major George W Littlefield, and others held large holdings; the notorious bad men of the west were there; but eventually the railroad passed it by and the town quietly faded away. This was originally published August, 1946. Six-Guns, Number 1386; 50 Great Western Illustrators, Bugbee, Number 105. BINDING/CONDITION: light olive cloth with red vignette and spine text; the top edge tint is red; lightly rubbed at the bottom spine, otherwise a Near Fine book, with a Good+ dust jacket; publisher's price on the jacket flap is intact. bibliography, index. 8vo (about 8.5 inches tall). 277 pages.

Good plus or better, light general wear. 1st Edition Cloth Top spine lightly chewed. Author-signed on half-title.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. No Jacket. dj: none. book: fine to as new. signed. Signed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condizione: Fine. 1st Edition. Very uncommon USFWS scientific report; printed paper wraps with appendices. Light minimal wear to the covers; interior clean and fresh.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. 1st Edition. Ex-library copy. Pale green boards with illustration of cowboy in red on cover and red lettering on spine. Rubbing along edges and bottoms of both boards. Some soiling. Green and black illustrated dust jacket is price clipped and wrapped in Mylar. Chipping to head and tail of spine. Creasing and small tears along edges. Two inch tear on front hinge. Soiling. Tight binding. Text block has red top stain and foxing to other edges. Library plate on front pastedown. Two library date stamps on rear end paper. Previous owner's name in pencil on FFEP. Features 8 plates with black and white photos and chapter decorations by Harold D. Bugbee. Six-Guns and Saddle Leather 1386, Rampaging Herd 1371. Bibliographer Ramon Adams called this book "The first complete history of this wild cow town." Tascosa, now a ghost town, was once the lively center of an inland cattle empire in the Texas panhandle. This history covers the outlaws and lawmen, cowboys and ranchers, as well as the gun battles that made Tascosa the epitome of the romance and danger of the Old West.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good +. Bugbee, Harold D. (chapt.dec.) (illustratore). Enlarged Edition. 287pp.incl.index; HB beige w/red; bookplate,ft.pastedwn.,otherwise fine condition w/clean,tight pgs. DJ blue w/blk.&white; some rub; corner-cut. The rise and decline of Old Tascosa. illus.

Paperback. Condizione: New. Once the rival of Dodge City and Cheyenne, for years Tascosa, Texas, lay a ghost town of crumbling adobes. Today almost all traces of frontier Tascosa are gone, replaced by the ultramodern stone buildings which make up a self-contained city of boys and administrative staff - Cal Farley's famed Boys Ranch.Maverick Town tells the story of the rise and decline of Old Tascosa, which epitomized the romance and danger of the early West. Tascosa's heyday was brief, yet it compressed into a few years the history of an era - that of the open range - which will never return.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good+. Harold D. Bugbee (illustratore). 1st Edition. At 277 pages long this book is brick with turqoise text on the cover and spine. The book is a history of the town of Tascosa from the coming of the ranchers to Billy the Kid to the coming of barbed wire and an epilogue for how a town dies. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good+. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Second printing, 277 pages, frontis, map end-papers, illustrations, minor edge wear to jacket, light sunning to jacket spine. Inscribed by the author on the half title page, "To Walace Hawkins at the request of our mutual Van Dale??" First complete history of this wild cow town, it tells about its gunmen and gun battles and some of the outlaws of the South West. Billy the Kid. Information and convincing interpretations of the economic and social history of the High Plains. Herd 1371, Six Guns 1386.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.