Fletcher Curley (18 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Welch, Guy M. (illustrator) (illustrator). 1st Edition. Sunned DJ spine. Dust jacket protected by a removable Brodart cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Brown loth with titling and decoration in silver and green, heavy wear including rubbing and edgewear, semi-circle stain to front. Front board cracked and bent about 1.5-in away from fore-edge. Binding sound. Insect damage to bottom fore-edge corner of front paste down and to the full vertical length of FFEP fore-edge. Prior owner's name stamped six times across front endsheet; gift inscription to previous owner inked to front paste down. Interior else clean, pages toned, text unmarked. With sketches by Guy Welch.

Hardcover. 75p., blue cloth boards, illustration stamped in yellow and green; frontispiece portraits of the author and Loyal Underwood, Sheriff of KNX, board corners mildly exposed, minor shelfwear, residual glue on front free endpaper, a couple of ownership signatures, otherwise very good condition.

Soft cover. Condition: As New. Welch, Guy M. (illustrator) (illustrator). Reprint. This as new copy is bound in illustrated card covers as issued. The contents are bright, tight, white and square. International postal rates are calculated on a book weighing 1 Kilo, in cases where the book weighs more than 1 Kilo increased postal rates will be quoted, where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. Carmen William "Curley" Fletcher (1892?1954), also known as Curley W. Fletcher and Curley Fletcher, was an American composer of cowboy songs and cowboy poetry. A prolific creator of this material, he is best remembered for the classic cowboy song "The Strawberry Roan", written in 1915, and for this 1931 book Songs of the Sage. Like many similar artists, Fletcher had numerous occupations, including cowboy/cowhand, mineral prospector, poet, champion rodeo rider as well as promoter, musician, publisher, movie actor, and advisor for Hollywood films. His songs and poems are regarded as strong material that comes across beautifully with or without music. They have been recorded by many musicians, particularly Marty Robbins and Michael Martin Murphey. He appeared as a rancher in the 1947 movie Gunsmoke. Ref YY 7.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Signed. SIGNED by author on half-title. Minor shelf wear. Pages/boards clean, binding sturdy.

Condition: New. Welch, Guy M. (illustrator) (illustrator). Satisfaction Guaranteed or your money back.

Flex Wraps. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Light-brown flexible cloth cover with light-green lettering and illustration to binding and a silver moon in the background; decorated endpapers; approx. 79 pages; b&w vignette illustrations; frontispiece photo of Curley; only date is 1931. Very good condition: very slight wear to binding; name inside. Cowboy poetry with one page of music. Wikipedia: Carmen William "Curley" Fletcher (1892-1954), also known as Curley W. Fletcher and Curley Fletcher, was an American composer of cowboy songs and cowboy poetry. A prolific creator of this material, he is best remembered for the classic cowboy song "The Strawberry Roan", written in 1915, and for his 1931 book Songs of the Sage. Size: 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Book.

Tan Cloth. Condition: Light Wear. No Jacket. First Edition. Illustration of cowboy on front cover. Light rippling of cloth rear cover. Sketches by Guy M. Welch. 74 pages of poems and song lyrics, Many black and white illustrations and vignettes. Song sheet at the end "When Desert Flowers Bloom". Size: Small Square Octavo.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Flexible pictorial cloth. Slight soil/rubbing to cloth. Contents fine. Firm binding. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall.

Flexible Cover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Former owner's name and date on first free end page. Crack in binding between second and third signature. Some rubbing to covers' edges. Blue cloth with blue end papers. Used Book.

paperback. Condition: Befriedigend. Welch, Guy M. (illustrator) (illustrator). Seiten; 9780879052577.4 Gewicht in Gramm: 500.

Condition: very good. 1st edition. 75pp. 12mo. Illustrated with photos (including frontispiece) and drawings. Blue endpapers. Original blue decorative cloth. Cover slightly rubbed with slight wear to extremities.A few small spots to front and back endpapers. Owner's name on front free endpaper and half title page in ink. very good.

paperback. Condition: New. Welch, Guy M. (illustrator) (illustrator). In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

8vo. 74, [2] pp., plus 4 pp. publisher's ads. Woodcut engraved text illustrations throughout. Pictorial flexible brown cloth, cover art of Cowboy below a silver moon (minor shelfwear, slight rubbing), VG copy, w/ former owner's note on half-title "May better days lay ahead, your Pard Carl." First edition of this anthology by the California cowpuncher born in San Francisco, reared in the Owens Valley, and known for his Western Ballad "The Strawberry Roan" which opens this anthology of verse and songs. Fletcher (1892-1954) was also known for penning "he died with his boots on" in Yavapai Pete, the second in this anthology, and also appeared in the 1947 film, Gunsmoke. Welch (1886-1958) was a noted Western artist, muralist, and Fletcher's father-in-law for a spell.

Softcover. Condition: Good. First edition. Quarto. Single bifolium with a single-sheet-insert. Bifolium separated along the fold but both leaves are present, a large dampstain along the bottom left corner of the front cover affecting throughout, the number 10 written in ink at the top of the front cover, and edgewear, a complete but good only copy. For voice and piano, with chord diagrams for ukulele. The back cover features a short sample of "The Frontiers Of Freedom" also by Curley Fletcher. The front cover features a small monochrome portrait of Curley Fletcher. Curley Fletcher is probably best remembered for his song, "The Strawberry Roan," which is referred to here on the cover. Unrecorded by *OCLC* and appears to be equally uncommon in the trade.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Hardcover in pictorial board. No dust jacket. First edition. Near Fine condition--just a faint touch of wear to boards. SIGNED by the author with a nice diagonal slant on the half-title page. Illustrated narrative poems. A frontis photo of Fletcher and some photos of him bucking his broncos. 12mo. 77 pp.

Paperback. Condition: Good. First Edition. 8 pages. Nice photos on front cover include: Ken Maynard, Ken Maynard with Ruth Hall, and two scenes from the movie Strawberry Roan. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy.

[TEX RITTER] [COWBOY MUSIC]. First edition. 12mo. INSCRIBED on half title "To Texas Ritter, the longhorn critter; Commissioner of sin, Though he may curse, he's read worse, May he find some joy herein. Curley W. Fletcher Hollywood, Calif. 11/23/1936.". Decorated flexible boards with a 3-color illustration in green of a cowboy tending cattle beneath a silver moon on tan upper board; spine and front cover titled in green, 74, [5] pp., foreword, wonderful sketches by Guy M. Welch. Curley Fletcher was a champion rodeo rider and prolific songwriter, now best remembered for "Strawberry Roan," (the first poem in 'Songs of the Sage') chosen by members of the Western Writers of America as one of the Top 100 Western songs of all time. Tex Ritter was a pioneer of American country music and a long-time cowboy actor; he is a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame. In addition to Ritter, Fletcher's songs have been recorded by a broad range of iconic singers - from Roy Rogers, Gene Autrey and Marty Robbins to Lacy J. Dalton and Michael Martin Murphey. Fletcher and Ritter were longtime friends and were even business partners in accumulating old mining claims.