About this title: Dominique Laxalt was sixteen when he left the French Pyrenees for America. He became a sheepherder in the Nevada desert and nearby hills of the Sierra. Like all his fellow Basque immigrants, Dominique dreamed of someday returning to the land of his beginnings. Most Basques never made the journey back, but Dominique finally did return for a visit ...
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Edition: Book Club Edition.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harper & Brothers, New York
Date Published: 1957
Description: Good in very good dust jacket. Ex-library. DJ has plastic and label attached. Book has stamps blacked out, pouch removed causing a little roughness, a little writing. 223 p. read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Edition: Book Club (BCE/BOMC)
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harper & Brothers, N. Y.
Date Published: 1957
Description: Cover Art. Very Good in Very Good jacket. Hard Back. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Owners name on the inside...The hard cover and the jacket has light shelf wear. Light yellowing to the pages......We are very careful when we list our books, but sometimes something minor may get by.. read more
Edition: Book Club (BCE/BOMC)
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: Harper & Brothers, New York
Date Published: 1957
Description: Cover Art. Very Good in Good jacket. Hard Back. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. The jacket has some shelf wear and has signs of book worm. The bottom of the book at its edges has some fade. The pages has yellowing......We are very careful when we list our books, but sometimes something minor may get by. read more
Edition: Book Club (BCE/BOMC)
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: Harper & Brothers, New York
Date Published: 1957
Description: Very Good in Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Binding tight, text clean, pos on ffep, 1" tear to dj at spine, pos on top page edges. 223pp. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Univ of Nevada Pr, Reno, Nevada, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1986
ISBN-13:9780874171143ISBN:0874171148
Description: George Carlson. Good in Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Book shows light to moderate wear/ spine tight, pages clean/ D.J. shows moderate edge wear/ corners and spine bumped/ personal library seal on front page. read more
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: University of Nevada Press, Reno and Las Vegas
Date Published: 1986
ISBN-13:9780874171372ISBN:0874171377
Description: 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Assume First PB Printing of a 1957 Copyright since there is no indication otherwise. Lightest crease across spine, Near Fine or Better Condition, in wraps. Octavo sized PB, 176 pages. Foreword by William A. Douglas, 1 illustration by George Carlson. "The account a son writes of his father, an old Basque sheepherder who lived and worked in the American West for most of his life, who, in fulfilling his dream of returning to the Pyrenees, came to a new realization of what ... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harper, New York
Date Published: 1957
Description: Good. No dust jacket. Ex-library. Signed by author. Hardcover former library book in good condition, cover wear, edgewear, remnants of dj glued inside as well as article on author. 176 p. 22 cm. read more
Description: Very Good. B00073D5DY Harper & Row trade paperback, 1974, immaculate, No marks/creases or defects, only faint wear...Near Fine (like new). read more
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