Old Ramon

Author: Schaefer, Jack
Title: Old Ramon
Publication: Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1960
Edition: First Edition

Description: West, Harold. Hardcover. Old Ramon, Jack Schaefer, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston MA, 1960, 102 pp., 8½ x 5⅝ inches. Signed.

Gray cloth boards with blue pictorial, title in blue on spine. Bookshop sticker inside cover, deckle fore edge, pulling away slightly at front hinge otherwise binding tight, top corner wear front and back. First edition, signed copy. Very Good condition. Dust jacket not price-clipped, wear and slight wrinkling and tearing to top and bottom edges and tail cap, covered in archival mylar. Good condition. Please refer to photos for condition.

Set in the Mojave Desert this book tells the story about the friendship between a wise old shepherd and a young boy and two brave dogs. Ramon is in charge of the boy over the season of caring for sheep. The boy watches and learns from Ramon. "Old Ramon is as much a part of the plains as a gnarled juniper, a man who is wise in the ways of sheep, and the ways of men and of boys who are becoming men." By the author of Shane. Very Good condition / Good condition.

Seller ID: 423

Subject: Childrens, Signed Books



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