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Circle City Books, Tucson, AZ, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
AbeBooks Seller since April 20, 2005
Oblong 8vo 8" to 9" tall; 161 pages; Jacket with light rubbing and wear. Seller Inventory # 33134
Title: BELL RANCH AS I KNEW IT
Publisher: Lowell Press, Kansas City
Publication Date: 1973
Binding: Hardcover
Illustrator: Illustrated by Robert Lougheed
Condition: Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+
Edition: First Edition; First Printing.
Seller: Books by White/Walnut Valley Books, Winfield, KS, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Robert Lougheed (illustrator). 1st Edition. The Lowell Press, Kansas City, MO. 1973. Hardcover. Stated First Edition. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good; light shelfwear to head, tail and lower tips. DJ: Very Good; NOT Price Clipped ($14.95); light shelfwear to head, tail, and tips; light wear to DJ at spine shoulders and flap folds; sunfading to spine. Brown leatherette boards and spine with bright gilt lettering on the spine and front board with mountain in gilt on the front board. Clean internals. Internal hinges are sound and not split. Maps as endpapers. 161 pp 8vo oblong. This book is history book of the Bell Ranch, A Spanish Land Grant, and man named George Ellis who managed the ranch for 25 years and brought innovation, common sense, and hard work to create a remarkable milestone in livestock (Hereford cattle) management. This history is balanced with stunning paintings and drawings by Robert Lougheed. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket. Seller Inventory # 020502
Seller: Bryn Mawr Bookstore, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Robert Lougheed (illustrator). 1st Edition. Oblong quarto. Unpaginated. Stated first edition. With a Historical Overview by Donald R. Ornduff. With many illustrations in color and black & white by Robert Lougheed, and many photographs. The historic Bell Ranch in New Mexico, at almost 300,000 acres, has its own airport and zip code. Details of life and work on the ranch, crafting silver horse trappings, breeding horses, running cattle, etc. A very good copy in glossy brown boards, with wear and small losses to spine ends. Dust jacket Good only, with sunning to spine, light soil, chips to extremities, and closed tear to back. Map and property plan to endpapers. Seller Inventory # 012450
Seller: T A Swinford, Bookseller, Sun city west, AZ, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 1st Ed., 161 pp., illus, somi in color, map endpapers, dj, vg+ Noted New Mexico spresd. Seller Inventory # 004859
Seller: Mullen Books, ABAA, Marietta, PA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Oblong quarto. Hardcover. Bound in red leather patterned paper with gilt titles in illustrated jacket. 153 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 x 26 cm. Traces the ownership of the Bell Ranch, beginning in the early 1800s with Pablo Montoya, who was first granted title by the Mexican government to the 655,468 acres comprising the original ranch, to 1973. George Ellis managed the Bell Ranch for almost a quarter century and was one of but six men who served as general manager in its 150-year history. Donald Ornduff, well known cattle editor, writer and researcher sets the historical stage for the story, and Robert Lougheed provides the illustrations. VG/G+. Jacket spine is sunned, panels are rubbed, and a few tears/chips around edges. Inscribed to a prominent New York art dealer by Lougheed. Seller Inventory # 215395
Seller: Americana Books, ABAA, Stone Mt, GA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. Oblong quarto hardcover with illustrated, non price clipped, dust jacket. [8], 161 pages. Illustrated in color, black and white drawings, and photographs. Map illustrated end papers. Four folding section pages. Dust jacket has light soil, crease, and small closed tear on the back cover. Interior contents clean. Seller Inventory # 35405
Seller: Mark Henderson, Overland Park, KS, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Book. Seller Inventory # 047023
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Signed. First Edition. first edition, signed by Ornduff and Lougheed. near fine in slipcase. Seller Inventory # mon0003833482
Seller: Magers and Quinn Booksellers, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
BOXED. Condition: Very Good. Condition: Very Good +; hardcover in slipcase. No. 217 of a limited edition of 250. Signed by one of the authors and the illustrator. Map in back intact. Condition is Very Good+ with clean covers and interior pages. Gift inscription bottom of pastedown. Small abrasion to paper on pastedown. Slipcase clean with a bit of rubbing. Photos upon request. BOXED. Seller Inventory # 843759
Seller: Reiner Books, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. ] Slightly oblong hardback, quarto, appx 9 1/4 x 10 1/4 inches, pp [xvi], 162, [ii], VG or Better in Like dj (dj fitted w/ protective mylar sleeve). Book very clean, no names no writing, and only problem of note seems to be what is a very thin vertical wrinkle in one page (originating, I d think, from either the paper manufacturer or the press run). The wrinkle is on the half-title page, which here is the first right-hand page behind the title page. Ahead of the half-title page the tp shows very minor effect of the htp wrinkle. Behind the htp the Dedication page shows a partial somewhat distinct effect + less effect showing to the following additional two pages. DJ clean, no corner clips, partial (rather minor) spine fading to the background color, surface rubbing along extremities & a few very short edge tears/splits repaired w/ archival tape on the unprinted side. DJ front panel s unprinted area has a 2-inch circular gold metallic award seal (very nice condition): 1974 Wrangler Award, National Cowboy Hall of Fame. International order will require additional shipping charges. RWR5 Ranching New Mexico History American West Southwest. Seller Inventory # 07872
Seller: Old Bookie, Austin, TX, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: F. Dust Jacket Condition: F. Lougheed, Robert (illustrator). 1st Edition. 153 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 x 26 cm oblong ; brown faux leather with gilt lettering ; dj in mylar. Seller Inventory # 002773