Fife Alta S (33 results)

Condition: very_good. Fast & Free Shipping â" Very Good condition book with a firm cover and clean pages. Shows normal use and some light wear or limited notes markings. A solid, nice copy to enjoy. J. K. Ralston (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Former library book; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. J. K. Ralston (illustrator).

Condition: acceptable. Fairly worn, but readable and intact. If applicable: Dust jacket, disc or access code may not be included. J. K. Ralston (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. The book is a hardcover in good condition with a strong binding and clean pages. There are no visible inscriptions or library markings. The dust jacket is not present in the photos, so its condition is unknown. The cover shows minor wear consistent with age. unknown (not visible in photos). J. K. Ralston (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Near New. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 2nd Edition. 372pp. innc. index. one closed tear 1/2 inch, light edge wear to DJ. Book & test as new, clean brown boards/ sharp corners. text is clean with no marks or tears .tight binding illustrated with pen & ink drawings. Large & Heavy 4to. J.K. Ralston (illustrator). …

paperback. Condition: Fine. Glossy softcover showing minimal shelfwear and edgewear. Clean pages, no creasing or curling. Page edges unmarked. Proceeds benefit the Pima County Public Library system, which serves Tucson and southern Arizona.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Boards (HB) in very good condition. Ex lib. with label to bottom of spine, 2 stamps and card inside cover. Tape residue inside cover. Dust jacket in very good condition, in library plastic cover with slight wear and tape to inner covers. Compilation of 23 cowboy songs collected by N. Howard "Jack" Thorp (1867 - 1940) and first published In 1908 (and a latter expanded 1921 edition), without musical notation, titled Songs of the Cowboys; the book included "Little Joe, the Wrangler," written by Thorp himself. Cattleman Thorp spent some 50 years riding the range; his original publication represents the first systematic effort to track down western cowboy songs and poems and western songs. 346 pages with lexicon, bibliography and index of titles.…

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

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

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

[6], 346 pages. Hardcover: H 23.25cm x L 15.75cm. Dark brown dust jacket rubbed; a few small stains and surface scuffs to rear panel; some nicks, short tears, and creasing at edges; foxing to flaps. Light tan cloth with light spotting to spine and boards; spine heel bumped with slight fraying along head. Foxing/toning to text block edges and several initial and rear leaves; occasional light foxing spots to interior pages which overall remain clean. Binding is firm. A very good- copy in a very good- dust jacket. Pages 258-303 feature a facsimile of Jack Thorp's 1908 edition with the book's extensive text being general commentary and music for each song with sources for individual bibliographies, texts of variations, recording and manuscript lists, a cowboy word and phrase lexicon, etc.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. VG/VG, used, a printing, 372 pp. Brown colored paper over boards with gilt text on spine; slight edge wear. Laminated color illustrated dust jacket with black and white colored text on upper and white text on spine; slight edge wear. This volume had Mary Jo Schwab as the Music Editor and has 200 songs with lyrics, guitar chords, music lines, and brief histories. Interior pages clean, unmarked, uncreased. Binding is straight and tight. J. K. Ralston (illustrator). …

Condition: Fair. Acceptable condition. Good dust jacket. Former Library book. (Western, Cowboys, Music, History) A reading only copy. Boards/spine/hinges may be broken, detached, or missing. All pages of text are present, but they may include extensive notes/highlighting, be heavily stained, or detached. May be missing non-text pages (e.g. end pages, half title, title, frontispiece.).…

Paperback. Condition: New.

Condition: Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. (american west, music, cowboys) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. J. K. Ralston (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. First Edition, First Thus. Text/BRAND NEW w/staining to upper text edge corner. Beige boards/NF w/light scrapes to backstrap. DJ/None. Compilation of 23 cowboy songs collected by N. Howard "Jack" Thorp (1867 - 1940) and first published In 1908 (and a latter expanded 1921 edition), without musical notation, titled Songs of the Cowboys; the book included "Little Joe, the Wrangler," written by Thorp himself. Cattleman Thorp spent some 50 years riding the range; his original publication represents the first systematic effort to track down western cowboy songs and poems.and western songs. With studied efforts, the music notations are drawn from pre-1930 sources.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Letter line a-h, presumed first edition thus.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. This library does remove the page opposite the front cover when taking a book from circulation. J. K. Ralston (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. First Edition. Contains music lines, guitar chords, and lyrics for 200 songs. There are many b&w illustrations throughout by J. K. Ralson. This is a large format book in the original publisher's tan cloth covers with black spine lettering. There is a small gold sticker on the upper corner of the front end paper and a small owner name at the top inside corner dated 1974, else this is a nice clean, tight and unmarked book with no internal or external markings and no bookplates. The dust jacket has some chips to the edges which were repaired with tape (still missing portions of the chipped areas); the jacket is also clipped on all four interior corners of fold over (not just price clipped--the other three corners, also). ; B&W Illustrations; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 372 pages. Illustrated by J. K. Ralston (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Signed by Austin and Alta Fife on the FFEP. The binding is tight, corners sharp. Light handling on the boards and spine. Text and images unmarked. The dust jacket shows some light handling, a couple of 3" taped repairs on the bottom edge of the back panel, vertical crease on the front flap, unclipped, in a mylar cover. 4to. xii, 372pp. Signed by Authors.…

Cloth. Condition: Good. No Dust Jacket. Slight soil and spotting. Enbossed "Library of Arthur F. Schrader AFS" on front end paper. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Cloth. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. X-library. Usual markings. Jacket taped down. Book stamped on bottom. Taped white Dewey number on bottom of spine. Despite the description the dust jacket is bright and the book is tight and very usable. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Ralston, J.K. (illustrator). …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. Hardcover in dust jacket. Book is in Fine condition in orange cloth boards. Former owner's name on front free endpage. Price-clipped dust jacket is in Very Good condition, fading at spine and several closed tears. Music editor is Mary Jo Schwab; 372 pp. Including Index of first lines, and a lexicon of cowboy words, b&w illustrations. Free of any markings, not ex-library. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall. Illustrated by J.K. Ralston (illustrator). …

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. SUBTITLED : ` A Comprehensive Anthology '.The introducytion to this 372 page volume notes that cowboy songs likely originated as ` self-inflicted exercises to ward off loneliness'. That was before radio got wind of the genre. READ more about : mesquite, refrain, Doc Few-Clothes, Blue Mountain, horse head, gunman, prairie, mouldering bones, Little Mohea, hanky-panky, lavender cowboy, and Railroad Corral. Text accompanied by musical notation. Interest added by b/w (light-hearted) drawings by J.K. Ralston. Mary Jo Schweab is listed as music editor. INDEX at back. Cond : Paper wrapper is buckskin in colour with brown titling. Cover art shows six or seven cowboys gathered around a campfire. Volume in ALL respects is clean and bright and square. No wear. No names nor marks. Giftable !! QUote (p. 03 of the introduction) : " The best of the cowboy songs came into being after 1870 and before 1930. Their real substance consists of the candid and dramatic way in which they reveal the human condition in those decades of ._._._. . ". B/W Drawings (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. Stated First Edition. Hardcover in dust jacket. Orange cloth boards, clean and bright, with general shelf wear to edges. Protected, price unclipped, dustjacket bright, age toning, nicks and chips to edges, a few cleanly tape repaired tears. Book firm in binding, 372 pages include Index of First Lines, b&w illustrations. Free of any markings, not ex-library. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 372 pages. Illustrated by J.K. Ralston (illustrator).…

hardback. Condition: Near Fine. A Comprehensive Anthology. Illustrated. Large 4to. 1st ed. NY (Potter) 1969. A fine copy in slightly torn dust wrapper.

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hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. Dust Jacket Condition: Includes dust jacket. This is a used book. It may contain highlighting/underlining and/or the book may show heavier signs of wear . It may also be ex-library or without dustjacket. This is a used book. It may contain highlighting/underlining and/or the book may show heavier signs of wear . It may also be ex-library or without dustjacket.…