Thorp N Howard Jack Thorp (30 results)

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

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

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

Trade Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Wraps. First PB Edition, First Printing. First PB Edition, First Printing. Soft cover 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" Tall. About Fine. Gift inscription half title page, else Fine and unmarked. 309pp inc. Appendix, Index; illustrated in b/w photos. Book. …

paperback. Condition: Near Fine.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Slight sunfade to spine, otherwise excellent, unread, like-new condition.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. book is tight with no markings, minor soiling to page edges, some discoloration to wraps.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 2nd Printing.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Contains "Variants, Commentary, Notes and Lexicon" by Austin E. and Alta S. Fife. Nice copy, dj shows shelf wear and handling; has price sticker on lower front.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Looks unread. We ship fast.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First, thus. 6 x 9, 309 pgs, index, b&w historical photos. A first person real cowboy story of this "sure-enough cowhand and cattleman" from the old days.

Beige cloth hardcover. Condition: very good. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. 1st edition. Author and music editor, Austin and Alta Fife, music director: Naunie Gardner. Ex library with the usual markings, , 346 pages. "In this book the Fifes have elaborated this early collection to put the songs in their full cultural and historical perspective. Not only have the Fife's provided a facsimile of the Thorp edition, but they have given for each song a general commentary and music.There is also a lexicon of cowboy words and phrases." 6 1/4 x 9 1/4" 346 pages. dj spine label inked, stamped on top edge of pages, pocket on last page.…

Softcover. Condition: Very Good+. Includes the CD.

[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: Fair. No Jacket. 309 pages; 10 chapters with 2 appendices (Notes on the Text and Rangeland Words and Phrases) and Index in rear of book. Introduction in front of boook. Pages tight; slightly yellowed; page edges somewhat darkened and foxed; usual ex-library markings; moderate page wear; Light blue hard covers with black lettering on front and spine. Extensive fading around edges of covers; some soiling; minor fraying of corners and spine ends. oorners slightly bumped. Numerous full page b/w illustrations including frontispiece of the author on horseback. Ten chapters with headings: Banjo in the Cow Camps; Spanish Thunderbolts; Barefoot Hoses; Five hundred mile horse race; On the dodge; Billy ("the Kid") Bonney; cowboy Humor; Death at Cornudas Tanks; Calendar of the Herd; Chuck and Gear. RARA VINTAGE COPY.…

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.…

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 346 pages. A stain on front dust jacket cover. Dust jacket chipping and edge wear. Some scratching and rubbing on rear dust jacket cover. Dust jacket price clipped. A few faint spots along top and fore edge. Unmarked, tight copy. Record # 856221.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Boston, 1921. 2nd ed. Orange paper covered boards with black lettering, green cloth spine. Spine paper label worn, stained. Covers worn, lightly stained, tips worn to fraying.; 184 pages.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Chipped. First Edition Thus. 346pp "Variants, commentary, notes and lexicon by Austin E. and Alta S. Fife." MusicEditor:Nadine Gardner. Front cover damaged near foredge; small strip of d/j affixed to top of rear cover. Contents very good.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st of this Ed., 346 pp., index, dj., vg+. The first printed collection of cowboy songs collected at the turn of the century.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: New. Has some light general reading/shelfwear, with some tanning/speckling to top page edges - otherwise, this is a clean, tight copy. Dispatch within 24hrs from the UK. Book.

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.

hardback. Condition: Fine. Variants, Commentary, Notes and Lexicon by Austin E. and Alta S.Fife. 1st ed. NY (Potter) 1966. Fine in worn dust wrapper.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good+. Good (in mylar). Second Printing. Usual age toning to the end papers, former owner's penciled inscription/date along upper edge of ffep, else textblock is clean and tight. Toned top page edges. Price-clipped dust jacket, chipping to corners of spine, small tears to head and foot of spine, chipped corners, small tears to some of the edges, lightly rubbed, soiled back cover. 309pp., including appendix and index. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. B&W Photographs (illustrator). Hardcover.…

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

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Dust Jacket. Second Edition. Wear along the corners and board bottom edges and fore-edges. Surface rubbing, with a scuffed area on the front board (over the decoration on the board). Rubbing on the paper spine label. Endpapers foxed. Small inked name on the front flyleaf. Some soil, age-darkening to page edges. Else pages clean. ; AWH18B; 6-1/2 x 4-1/4"; 184 pages.…

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 8 vo, 309 pp, inc. Index, Appendices, Baby blue cloth, square tight, clean. Light handling. No damage. No marks. illustrated (illustrator).

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