Here are the yarns of a true cowboy for those who have in their blood either a touch of larceny, an affection for the Old West, or better yet, both. These twenty tales add up to a true account of Ben K. Green's experiences around the corrals, livery stables, and wagon yards of the West. Green was a veterinarian who took down his shingle and went ...
From the same corral that produced the widely loved Horse Tradin', Ben K. Green has rounded up fifteen new yarns filled with the ornery yet irresistible style that has earned his books a place in classic Western Americana. "Some More Horse Tradin" recounts the dealings of a whole slew of craggy old-timers and rangy characters. See them match wits ...
Ben K. Green takes us back to the deep Southwest and the never-a-dull-moment years he spent as a practicing horse doctor along the Pecos and the Rio Grande. With precious little formal schooling but a perfect corral-side manner and plenty of natural wit, Green became the first to hang up a shingle in the trans-Pecos territory. Hear him tell the ...
In thirteen stories full of rope burns and brush scratches, the author of the classic "Horse Tradin'" tells of the days when he made a specialty of catching wild cows. Ben K. Green calls himself a "stove-up old cowboy," and readers of this book will learn soon enough where the broken bones came from. Green tells of his adventures with wild steers, ...
It was the "late days of the Depression", times were hard and money scarce, and Ben Green "had about used up all the hard ways to make a living a-horseback". So when he heard talk of the wild mustangs free for the taking in the Big Bend country of West Texas, he saddled a road horse, put his camp on a pack horse, and headed west from Weatherford, ...
"The Color of Horses" describes various breeds and their characteristics, then addresses the two main color chategories: "intense" colors such as bay, brown, black, grey, and dun and "self" colors such as chestnut, sorrel, buckskin, and copper dun.
Description: Mountain Press, 2001 later printing, SOFTCOVER, 10-1/2x9-3/4"; Color paintings by Darol Dickinson, 127 pages, clean, bright and solid, AS NEW and UNREAD. A beautiful copy you will be happy to own! read more
Edition: First Thus
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Nymphenbuerger Verlagshandlung, Munchen, 1969
Date Published: 1969
Description: 1st German edition. Narrow 8vo cloth. 257pp. Interesting ex-lib copy, if there is such a thing. No dj, but front pictorial panel of the dj has been affixed to front cover of book & a printed pictorial label placed on the spine. Covers covered with a thin, clear laminate. From a German library. Library stamps (none on the edges) on copyright page & rear paste down. Unused checkout sheet on rear e.p., & small pocket on rear paste down. Small red ink number on ffep. Library call number strip on ... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: The Encino Press
Date Published: 1970
Description: Good. No Jacket. 52 Pages. Measures: 9-1/4" x 6-1/4" Signed by Author Clean, tight copy with no writing or marking. Ex-Library Book. This book has been issued in an edition of 850 signed copies of which this is copy number 185. Missing slip case. Photograph of author on front and back cover. Brick red cover. read more
Edition: 1st
Binding: HB
Publisher: Northland Press
Date Published: 1974
Description: Darol Dickinson. F/VG DJ is a little scuffed with minor tears on the back. Size is 10 x 11-34 full-color paintings by Darol Dickinson in perfect condition. read more
Description: Fine. No Jacket. First edition. 8vo. Foreword by Jenkins Garrett. Color frontispiece portrait photograph, b/w illustrations. Original silver stamped black leatherette over gray patterned cloth. Fine. Original publisher's red board slipcase. No other signatures or bookplates. Number 78 of 100 deluxe numbered copies, signed by Wilson on limitation page. read more
Edition: Limited Edition
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Date Published: 1972
Description: Joe Beeler. Fine. No Jacket. Slip Case. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Signed 8vo., 255pp. Good horse stories from Ben Green. This is #345 of 350 copies printed on special paper, and specially bound, in yellow printed slip case. Inscribed and signed by author on limitation page. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: The Encino Press,
Date Published: 1970
Description: Hardcover. Near Fine. Limited to 850 copies Signed by author. 1st edition, Oblong 8vo. Red boards with illustrated front cover pastedown. Near Fine, as new in Near Fine slipcase with printed paper pastedown. Limited to 850 copies Signed by author. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: The Encino Press
Date Published: 1970
Description: As New in Slipcased jacket. Signed. 16mo-over 5¾"-6¾" tall. Signed by Author Gorgeous, as new red hardcover with pasted-on art of Ben Green on cover as published. SIGNED by Ben K. Green on fep. Tips sharp, internally as new. Red card slipcase shows negligible color loss at still sharp tips. Also has pasted-on paper title on frt. More than collectible. Rare complilation work of two of Ben's most beloved stories including: Texas Cow Horses & The Vermont Maid/ Mr. Undertaker & The Cleveland Bay ... read more
Edition: 1st.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Author
Date Published: 1963
Description: Fine in Very Good jacket. 141 PP., illus. D.j., (some chipping on corners & spine ends, some wringling along edges). First half of the book devoted to horse conformation; 2nd half--HOSS TRADES OF YESTERYEAR. Last 70 pp. contain many horse trading stories. Very Scarce. INSCRIBED. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Leatherette
Publisher: Privately Published
Date Published: 1963
Description: Photographs & Drawings. Near Fine in Very Good jacket. Author's Presentation Copy. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" Tall. Signed by Author Presentation copy, SIGNED on blank fep: "Best wishes to J. Harlan Williams Jr. Dr. Ben K. Green" with J. Harlan Williams' small red name/addy stamp on frt pastedown. Lovely copy in black faux leather boards with yellow titles. Tips sharp, spine ends bumped. No markings or tears in the crisp 141 pg text. Light age-toning on periphery of frt pastedowns and opposing blank ... read more
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