Barbara hooton (7 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: 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. Zustand: Good. Paperback, Some cover corner & edge wear, Cover creases, Otherwise pages are clean, tight & flat. Item Shrink-wrapped for additional protection.

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

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good-. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: 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. …

Zustand: 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.

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