John Wares Cow Country by Macewan Grant (23 results)

Condition: Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Jacket with edge-wear, clean firm copy.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Used - Very Good. Paperback in very good condition. Lightly bumped corners, some edge wear to covers and textblock. Tiny, 1-2mm stain to textblock. Will pack carefully.

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dj. 8vo pp.189.paperback edition. book.

Condition: Good. 1967. Third Printing. 261 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over brown cloth. Pages are lightly tanned and foxed throughout. Previous owner's inscription to front free endpaper. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Soft crushing to spine ends. Book is slightly forward leaning. Unclipped jacket has light edge wear with chips, tears and creasing. Rubbed dark marking to surfaces. Light sunning to spine and edges. Some brown stained marking to front panel.

1965 2nd Printing, G+ to Vg-- , No DJ. the Life of a Negro Cowboy in Montana & Alberta, Canada, 261 pages.

1967 3rd printing, VG/VG, DJ one inch closed year of front DJ cover, in portective mylar. SIGNED BY AUTHOR a black Alberta rancher, 261 pages.

Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. The covers and spine have light wear, there is light soiling to the page edges and the pages are clean. The dust jacket is edge worn along the top edge and head of the spine, there is a cip off the top edge of the back and a portion missing fromt the head of the spine and there is a short tear on the front top edge. There is light soiling and the spine is slightly darkened. We placed the dust jacket in a high quality Demco protector to preserve it from further wear, tear and soiling. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. B/W Photographs (illustrator). 4'th Printing. Almost single handedly, John Ware carved the Southern Alberta LEGEND about riding tough horses to a standstill. He became famous from Brooks to the Porcupine Hills as a MOST reliable ranch-hand. John Ware died in 1905, in an ironic twist of fate, after being thrown from a quiet horse. 261 pages, including INDEX, with three B/W photos: 2 of John's cabin and one of the Ware Family, as frontispiece. Cond: Cream coloured wrapper with black lettering. Graphic of John on cover. End-papers are white. Volume is brilliantly tight, bright, and clean. Very slight wear at edges and corners . Spine fine and square. Neither marks nor folds. Minimal soiling. Decidedly giftable ! ! Collectible ! ! Quote (p. 104) : " For a time there was less cattle-killing; and the three Maunsell brothers, using the IV brand, entertained fresh hope. Now, however, the Indian boldness generated a new outbreak of killing and men on patrol were seeing the ._._._. ." Size: Octavo.

Condition: Very Good. 8vo pp. 361, hardcover edition, book.