Barbara hooton (19 resultados)

Paperback. Condición: Good. Paperback, in Good condition, paper is tanning with age, some edge wear and small creases, straight spine, clean unmarked pages, good shape considering its age.

Hardcover. Condición: Fair. No Jacket. Shelf wear. Tanning along fore edges and pages. Rubbing and fading to boards. Bumping along edges of boards. Spine creases. Spine is slightly cocked. Browning throughout.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. Hardback book with dust jacket. The jacket is NOT price-clipped ($3.50) with light age-toning and small chips/tears. The book is sturdy, clean and complete with some wear to the edges. There is an inscription which states" for dear departed Mr. Murphy- Long may he wave-pal-* and them some scirbbles. A previous seller has marked this as inscribed and he may have meant by Patrick Dennis. It certainly resembles Patrick Dennis' handwriting, but the signature is illegible.…

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st Popular Edition. Stored in mylar bag. Pages clean and unmarked with no rips or creases, moderate age toning. Binding is tight. Covers are clean and bright with rubbing on spine and very thin edge tear. Quick, secure shipping with free delivery confirmation from Los Angeles bookstore. Photos available upon request.…

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. Popular Library SP71 First paperback. Memoir used as the basis for the ABC TV show of the same name (photo on back cover). VG+ copy, some rubbing but very clean inside and out.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. Very good copy in hardcover with good jacket. Name on endpaper, light edge-wear. Jacket has edge-wear, chipping to spine ends and fore-edge folds. New Mexico.

Mass Market Paperback. Condición: Good. Paperback, Some cover corner & edge wear, Cover creases, Otherwise pages are clean, tight & flat. Item Shrink-wrapped for additional protection.

Hardcover. DJ:rubbing & edgewear; small chips/creases/closed tears at edges; fading & yellowing; in cover & affixed to book Book:some rubbing & edgewear;yellowing & a little duststaining; small stain on edge; name & crimp otherwise overall clean & tight. 270 pages.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good ++. Publisher's original burgundy coloured boards, silver titles to spine. Plain endpapers, prior owner's signature to fep. 224pp. Unclipped pictorial DJ but with minor loss. Rudlandc (ilustrador).

Mass Market Paperback. Condición: Fair. Musky smell. Dent type of lighter creasing in the covers. Piece missing from the bottom corner of the back cover. Discolored in the same area. Priority shipping available on this item. ***No international shipping.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover in dust wrapper. First Edition, second impression before publication. 1957. Book Condition: Very Good++ Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good++. Boards are clean, sharp with no spine lean. Small, previous owner's name to ffep, otherwise unmarked throughout. Dust wrapper has usual light grubbiness to rear white panel, else unmarked and is not price clipped. A very solid copy.…

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by The Vanguard Press, New York. 1956. 270 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities (DJ is lightly chipped and worn to the extremities). Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. Previous owner's gift inscription on the FFEP. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. This was a funny memoir about a couple that moved from cosmopolitan New York City to New Mexico to run a Dude Ranch in the 1950's. With no experience at all, Barbara and her husband were basically learning the ropes while running the business, and encountered many hilarious situations. Initially, Barbara (not wanting to make the move) , made a deal with her husband to try it for one year, and if they could not make a go of it, move back to New York City, which she terribly missed. After all the ups and downs of that year, she realizes at the end, when a friend was offering to buy the whole shebang, that she really does not want to go back. EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.…

Unknown. Condición: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good-. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good+. Short owner's inscription "To: Mum / From: Lois". Chips and tears to corners of dust-jacket and ends of dust-jacket spine. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.; Second impression (before publication) May 1957. 224 pages. Red boards with silver lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 209 x 135mm. "What's it like to have twenty-five guests and no employees? What's it like to have twenty-five employees and no guests? Such are just sample of the many hilarious and embarrassing situations Barbara Hooton was calledupon to deal with when she left the comparative luxury of her New York apartment to manage a dude ranch in New Mexico. It was her husband's fault really. He had dreams of wealth and freedom in the Golden West and Barbara soon found herself exchanging her city finery for hard-wearing blue jeans, wrestling with stubborn stoves and highly-strung cooks, not to mention a variegated assortment of difficult guests. What is a dude ranch? Well it's a place - often a genuine ranch - which has seen better days and which has been renovated to cater for guests who are looking for a holiday that will allow them to let their hair down and play at being cowboys and Indians." - from dust-jacket blurb. …

Condición: Good. Condizioni dettagliate: Buone, tagli bruniti, piccoli strappi, lievi macchie e bruniture sulla copertina, sovraccoperta mancante La foto raffigura esattamente l'oggetto in vendita Maggiori informazioni, copertina rigida.

Condición: Good. Condizioni dettagliate: Buone, sovraccoperta mancante, lievi macchie ed abrasioni al volume, copertina rigida.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. 270pp, slight shelfwear. d/j in clear plastic cover, chipping and scuffing. Book spine worn at top and bottom, fading to d/j at spine. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. First Edition; Fourth Printing. Half black and half turquoise cover has light wear to extremities and lightly bumped corners but clean and in very good condition. Boards and spine are straight. Binding is tight. Pages are clean and in very good condition. .; 8.2 X 5.6 X 1.3 inches; 270 pages.…

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. HOOTON, Barbara [270] pp. The Vanguard Press 1956 8 1/4" x 5 3/4" Hilarious romp about a dude ranch in Santa Fe.