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BOWLEG BILL, THE SEA-GOING COWBOY: or Ship Ahoy & Let 'er Buck! Being the Adventures of a Wyoming Ranch-hand

by Digges, Jeremiah [pseudonym of Josef Berger]

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  • Bookseller: R & A Petrilla, Booksellers US (US)
  • Seller Inventory #: BOOKS008440I
  • Format: Original Cloth
  • Book condition: Good
  • Quantity available: 1
  • Illustrator: William Gropper
  • Edition: First Edition
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Publisher: Viking Press
  • Place: NY
  • Date published: 1938

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NY: Viking Press, 1938. First Edition. Original Cloth. Good. William Gropper. Private bookplate, some light shelf-rubbing. 188pp. Prefaced by an acknowledgment to the Federal Writers Project, WPA, State of Massachusetts. Tells of the astonishing adventures of Bowleg Bill, a cowboy from Laramie, who becomes a fisherman and whaler, sailing out of various Massachusetts ports, especially on Cape Cod. A lengthy appendix describes where and from whom the author collected these folk tales. Berger authored THE CAPE COD PILOT for the WPA. 8" x 5.5".


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