Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$8.87 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition, First POrinting. Hard cover 8vo in illustrated yellow cloth w/black cloth spine and gold titles. Very Good/No DJ. Gift inscription and notes front endpapers, sporadic annotations heavy notes rear endpapers. 157pp,
Seller: BASEMENT BOOKS, Albuquerque, NM, U.S.A.
Price: US$12.00 + shipping
Description: Good plus or better, light general wear Hardcover
Seller: Prairie Archives, Springfield, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$12.00 + shipping
Description: Good with a slightly rolled spine and bumped corners. Faint soiling to front and back boards. Previous owners names on front free end sheet. Neat underlining in blue pen and pencil with margin notes.
Seller: Weller Book Works, A.B.A.A., Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
Price: US$13.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 157 pages, slight wear. First edition in book form. Includes a chapter, Mr. Southwest on J. Frank Dobie, in which various important books of the cattle country are discussed.
Seller: Old West Books (ABAA), St. Robert, MO, U.S.A.
Price: US$14.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First printing. Spine is a bit slanted, otherwise very good. (box 9)
Seller: Bruce Davidson Books, Arlington, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$24.95 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition in quarter brown cloth over patterned orange paper covered boards. Clean, tight and crisp. No markings.
Seller: RON RAMSWICK BOOKS, IOBA, CARLSBAD, CA, U.S.A.
Powell, Lawrence Clark. Books West Southwest.. Ward Ritchie Press, LA, 1957.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A square, unbumped copy. Mild wear to board edges and mild soiling to edges of paper covered boards. Overall Very Good plus. Signed by Powell on the half-ttile page. Issued without a dust jacket.
Seller: Eliot Books, Tucson, AZ, U.S.A.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo. Clothbacked paterned boards. Fine condition. First edition.
Seller: Michael R. Thompson Books, A.B.A.A., Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Description: Near fine. Illustrated by Title page illustration. 1st edition. Binding is cloth & boards.
Seller: Arnold M. Herr, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Signed by the author on a laid-in postcard. This book is in Very Good+ condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. There is some beginning bumping to the spine ends and the bottom front corner. The text pages are clean and bright. "Lawrence Clark Powell (September 3, 1906March 14, 2001) was a librarian, literary critic, bibliographer and author of more than 100 books. Powell "made a significant contribution to the literature of the library profession, but he also writes for the book-minded public. His interests are reflected in the subjects that recur throughout his writings; these are history and travel, especially concerning the American Southwest, rare books, libraries and librarianship, the book trade, and book collecting." " (from Wikipedia); Signed by Author
Seller: S. Howlett-West Books (Member ABAA), Modesto, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$40.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Inscribed by author on front pastedown and dated April 8, 1992. Front pastedown also has signature of previous owner in 1959. Only 2000 copies of this book were printed. Patterned paper boards have light to moderate soiling with bumped tips. Textblock fairly tight and square. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Timothy Norlen Bookseller, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$44.00 + shipping
Description: Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy. 157 pps.
Seller: BookMine, Fair Oaks, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Description: Cloth-backed Boards First Edition Near Fine in (Mylar) DJ 157 pages. Preface. Title page vignette of roadrunner. Cloth-backed patterned boards. PRESENTATION COPY: Card laid in, "With good wishes from the author, 6288 North Campbell Avenue/ Tucson, Arizona 85718". Some minor shelfwear, but Near Fine overall, now in a custom clear mylar protective jacket. A collection of 12 Essays by Lawrence Clark Powell, some of which first appeared in magazines. In addition to essays one would expect on Arizona, Southern California and New Mexico literary matters, included are pieces on the Big Sur, Robinson Jeffers, bookselling and the book trade. Always FREE SHIPPING via media mail to any United States address.
Seller: Hardy Books, Nevada City, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo. Clothbacked boards. Clothbacked boards. This copy presented by Anderson Ritchie and Simon, with a slip, signed by Ritchie, noting this. A little light discoloration to endpapers. Otherwise fine. First edition.
Seller: Michael R. Thompson Books, A.B.A.A., Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Title page illustration. Los Angeles: The Ward Ritchie Pres, 1957. First edition, one of only 2,000 copies printed. A collection of 12 essays and addresses by Lawrence Clark Powell (1906-2000), inspired by the literature of the Southwest and his own experiences in "the semi-arid land from the Pecos of New Mexico-Texas to the Salinas of California." Inscribed by Powell on the front flyleaf. Patterned paper-covered boards over a black cloth spine with gilt stamping. Faint stain to the front pastedown (the contents and boards are unaffected); otherwise very good.
Seller: johnson rare books & archives, ABAA, Covina, CA, U.S.A.
Lawrence Clark Powell. Books West Southwest. Ward Ritchie Press, 1957.
Price: US$60.03 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A nice condition copy lacking jacket. Moderate wear to boards and spine. Contents overall clear.
Seller: WeBuyBooks, Rossendale, LANCS, United Kingdom
Price: US$64.50 + shipping
Condition: New
Description: BRAND NEW & Collectible. Author signed (dated 1957) to fEP. Decorated cloth-motif boards w/black linen backstrap with gilt lettering. DJ/None (as Issued?) Anthology of 12 essays on writers, the books they wrote, and the lands they wrote of --- that semi-arid region from the Pocos of New Mexico-Texas to the Salinas of California. Some essays first published in Arizona Highways, Los Angeles Time, Southwest Review, and other publications. Literary critic Lawrence Clark Powell (1906 - 2001), authotr of some 100 books, was University Librarian and School of Library Service (later Graduate School of Education & Information Services) at UCLA and head librarian of the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library.
Seller: 100POCKETS, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.