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The Rancho of the Little Loves: Available Copies

Minor wear to covers, slight lean, unmarked. Jacket shows edgewear, light soiling. A story of the oldest profession and the Las Vegas strip.

Solid binding. Moderate shelf wear. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item.

Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less

Publisher: Knopf, NY., 1956. First Edition, First Printing. GOOD in boards with NO dj. Stains. Not remainder marked. Not book club edition. Not ex-library.

Clean stated first edition in very good dust jacket. Blue and red decorated paper boards are clean with small stars decoration, red title boxes. Very light surface rubbing to spine ends, no fraying. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound, pages and edges are clean and unmarked. 170 pages. Dus jacket is not price clipped, has a few short closed edge tears, darkening to edges; enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. A story set in Las Vegas, where a lovely woman engaged in the oldest profession falls in love with her client, wants to become a lady, and make her house a home.

169 pages. The book is clean and tight, with light rubbing at corners and top & bottom edges of spine. Pages are lightly tanned. Dust jacket is generally bright, with some fading along the spine; very minor chipping of spine extremities. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

Slightly smaller book, shades of blue with stars on front, spine and back--beautiful, 170 lightly browned pages. DJ price-clipped, heavy yellow paper with three color illustrations on front, spine browned, list of Nathan books on back. DJ has very slight surface wear to tips, very tiny tear at top front spine indentation and bottom front spine indentation as well, slight surface wear to spine top edge, tiny tear at back spine indentations, bottom back edge as well. Good DJ/Very Good book.

New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf. Very good condition/No Dustjacket. 1956. First Edition. 8vo., 172 pp. . Very good condition/No Dustjacket

A Nearly Fine first Edition/First Printing with little rubbing to the edges in a chipped and soiled Very Good+ dust-jacket; In Nathan Robert's The Rancho of the Little Loves, three families--the Santanas, the Oliviers, and the Meads--are forced to live together after a natural disaster causes the death of their loved ones. The families must learn to get along and find some common ground in order to survive.; 8vo; 169 pages

A first Printing of the First Edition that is Nearly Fine with bumped corners and housed in a Fine dust-jacket; Nathan's debut novel tells the story of two families and their generations-spanning love story. Set on a sprawling cattle ranch in the American West, the novel follows the tumultuous eighties as the world around the ranch changes. The Rancho of the Little Loves is a story of love, loss, and the ties that bind.; 8vo; 169 pages

Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed inscription by Nathan to Gerry de la Ree on an adhesive label affixed to front free endpaper. Reginald 30578. A fine copy in near fine dust jacket with some dust soiling and darkening to spine panel. (#112030)

BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 192. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1956 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English Pages: 192

New York: Knopf, 1956. Stated First Edition. Octavo (21cm); 170pp. Publisher's illustrated dust jacket with $3.00 price intact; illustrated blue and red boards with white text; charcoal topstain. Salter's illustrations throughout. Dust jacket bumped with tears forming and minor chip at top corner of front panel. Jacket toned throughout, especially along spine; verso likewise toned. Boards bumped with slight toning along edges. Binding sound. Textblock and interior pages clean; endsheets show some toning. An overall Very Good copy. Inscribed and initialed by the author on the first free endsheet. Inscribed "For Bobbie and Nan Dolan This story about two old friends of theirs Odule and Pierre with love RN." Robert E. Dolan, a composer, was married to actress Nan Martin.

Stated first edition hardcover inscribed to the half title page by Nathan. Presentation copy to his friend American screenwriter/lyricist Robert E. Lee. Slight corner/edge wear to boards. Tight and square. The DJ in mylar is sunned to spine, lightly soiled/insected/edgeworn. Price is torn off of flap. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Signed by Author