Ruth Van Ackeren (11 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1St Edition. No Markings. Jacket Has Little Shelf Wear. Now In Protective Mylar. Complements Of First National Bank Of Chadron On Ffp.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good with good to very good dust jacket. Dust jacket is faded on spine, is bumped and rubbed at spine tips and corners, and has seven edge tears shorter than one inch each. 289 pages with index plus 82 illustrations.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 1st Ed., 289 pp., frontis, photos, maps, index, dj, nice. Reminiscences of a Nebraska cattleman, Some information On Will Comstock, Indians, etc.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine condition. Near Fine dust jacket. First Edition (so stated). Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1980. Bright, shiny, clean, square, tight, and unmarked. Sharp corners. Fresh and crisp, probably never read. The Dust Jacket is NOT price clipped ($10.95). No chips. No tears. No creases. No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder marks. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Illustrated. From the Dust Jacket: "Here are the documented stories of. [18] heroines of the Old West. nurses and teachers, homesteaders and peddlers, horse traders and madams, reformers and ranch hands." Includes: Angel of the Pecos (Ball); A Bride Who Went West (Ketcham); A Transplanted Britisher (Curry); Three Wishes (Yost); Heroine of Honey Creek (Bruere & Van Ackeren); The Lure of Gold (Niethammer); A Good Ole Gal (Rosson); Polly Pry (Pence); Mother Joseph (McDonald); Pioneer Doctor (Alter); Dame Shirley (Cunningham & Williams); Beloved Healer (Skalla); Medicine Woman (Barnhart & Cohea-O'Hearn); Horse Trader (Roach); The Great Western (Hamilton); Justice of the Peace (Urbanek); Reformer (Herr); From Rags to Riches (Cheney). Index. Black cloth spine / tan boards. First Edition (so stated). Hard Cover. Fine condition/Near Fine dust jacket. 8vo. xi, 252pp.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ 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.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Overall a good copy with no markings but has distinct moisture wave to many pages and a few small stains. otherwise just light wear, Pictorial stiff paper covers.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Volume has bayish and crimson cloth covers with gold lettering on the spine and the emblem of a cow in a triangle on the front cover. Dust jacket is protected in an archival quality (Brodart) jacket. At the base of the spine the dust jacket is chipped and a small piece less than a 1/4 of an inch wide and deep is missing; this is the reason for the condition downgrade of the dust jacket. Otherwise, the book and dust jacket are perfect. 289 pages. This is the biography of a controversial individual of the late 19th and early 20 centuries. To some homesteaders he was a cattle baron who sought control of Sandhills land they hoped to farm. To others he was a leader of Nebraska's early livestock industry who more clearly understood the capabilities of the land. A very nice copy.…

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. G/none, used, color illustrated stiff paper wraps, ii-v, map, 304pp. Interior has damp wrinkling over all, damp stain to spine area through out. Binding is tight. There is a 2 inch hole in the title page near gutter from paper sticking together. Shelf rubbing to wraps, no chips or tears, corners rubbed. Damp discoloration to upper and lower wrap. Cover illustration by Joel LaMay. A former owner has laid in a xeroxed/stapled index to all the stories in the book. …

hardcover. Condition: As New.