Clarus Backes Editor (15 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. 220pps. Near fine with foxing to top edge, firm binding and minor edge wear. Illustrated with 74 photographs. Introduction by Larry McMurtry. Celebrated writers share their experiences growing up in prairie and mountain towns, in mining camps and oil-boon towns, in ranch or logging country, in just-hatched cities.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Condition: Near Fine, Clean, unmarked. // Shipped carefully packed in a sturdy box.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Stated First Edition. Clean hardcover stated First Edition in unclipped dust jacket. Gray paper-covered boards with black lettering on cover, black cloth spine with silver lettering. Slight fading to edges. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound. No names, writing or bookplates. Beautifully illustrated with historical photographs. Foreword by Larry McMurtry. 220 pages. Clean jacket is unchipped, not price clipped, no tears; enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. Recollections by Dee Brown, A. B. Guthrie, Jr., David Lavender, Wright Morris, Clyde Rice, Wallace Stegner, Frank Waters.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Photographs (illustrator). 1st Edition. G+/G, used hc, vii + 220pp. Grey colored paper over boards with black cloth around spine and black text on upper and silver text on spine; slight edge wear. Color illustrated dust jacket with black and cream colored text on upper and spine; slight edge wear; price clipped. This book includes autobiographies and recollections of Dee Brown, A. B. Guthrie, Jr., David Lavender, Wright Morris, Clyde Rice, Wallace Stegner, and Frank Waters. Interior pages clean, unmarked. Binding is tight.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First printing of First Edition. Very Good+ in like dust jacket. Slight soil to top and fore page-ends. Corners lightly bumped. Rear bottom corner of DJ is creased and a bit worn. Front flap creased. No chips or tears. Intro by Larry McMurtry with brief memoirs by Stegner and Guthrie, et al.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition, First Printing. Text/BRAND NEW. Soft cover/NF w/faint creasings to lower front corner. Gift dedication to fEP. Anthology of seven reminiscences of boyhood days --- all raised in America West, all authors of repute, and all looking back as octogenarians. The authors are: Dee Brown, A.B. Guthrie, Jr; David Lavender, Wright Morris, Clyde Rice, Wallace Stegner, and Frank Waters.

Decorative Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Various (illustrator). First Edition. A wonderful book of recollections by some of the finest Western writers. Some chipping near top of spine. Very slight rubbing, now in mylar cover. A good copy with clean and tight pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Foreword by Larry McMurtry. Recollections by Dee Brown, A. B. Guthrie, Jr., David Lavender, Wright Morris, Clyde Rice, Wallace Stegner, and Frank Waters. First edition. Mild fading along board edges, else near fine in a near fine (slightly sun faded spine, minor edge wear at the corners) dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Joe (Photographer) Backes (illustrator). 1st Edition. Seven well-known Western writers, all in their eighties when the book was published in 1990, describe their experiences growing up in the West in the early part of the twentieth century. Seven grand old writers of the West, most of them in their 80s, reminisce about their growing-up years. One common thread in the lives of Dee Brown, A. B. Guthrie, Jr., Wright Morris, Clyde Rice, David Lavender, Wallace Stegner and Frank Waters is that all were culturally deprived youngsters who lived on isolated ranches, in oil-boom towns, mining camps, prairie hamlets. Guthrie notes that Montana's open spaces shaped his life; Stegner, whose father kept the family on the move, feels that motion was a force in his life. The late Clarus Backes (1935-1989), book editor of the Denver Post , introduces each writer with a brief portrait of his present life and a review of his work. Individually and collectively, these memoirs represent authentic western Americana. 74 B&W Photos. xi + 220+ 1pp. Hardcover has light brown cloth boards with dark brown cloth spine., darkbrown lettering on front cover & gold lettering on spine, in a fine (as new) unclipped dust jacket. Interior is tight, clean, and unmarked. Fine (as new) Book without any ownership markings. Copyright 1989. Editor and compiler Clarus Backes, died in October 1989 so publication was delayed until February 1990. Stated First Edition without print-line. Manufactured in U.S.A. ISBN: 0-394-57393-5. LCCN: 89-45274. MSR = US $22.95. No Ownership Markings.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: fine. 1st. Bound in publisher's original quarter black cloth and grey boards with spine lettered in gilt. Frontispiece photo and numerous other historic photographs of people and places of the American West in the early twentieth century.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Out of print.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. F. Knopf (New York), 1990. First edition. Hardbound. Recollections by Dee Brown, W. Stegner, Wright Morris, etc. Introduction by Larry McMurtry. New in dust jacket, with remainder line lower edge. A tight unread copy. Octavo, anothology. 0.0.

Paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

1990, 1st edition. (Oblong 8vo hardcover) Very good plus in very good plus dust jacket. 220pp. Photographs. Previous owner's name. Contributors include Dee Brown, A.B. Guthrie, Jr., David Lavender, Wright Morris, Clyde Rice. Locale: United States. (Western America, Memoirs, Writers).