COMSTOCK LODE 1st PRINTING Louis L'Amour Lamour Bantam Trade Paperback UNREAD

Description: This book is 40 years old, and looks almost like it could have been purchased yesterday!! The spine is lightly faded, and there are a couple of indentations on the back cover, otherwise, a near-fine copy of a very collectable book. There is NO WRITING, NO BENT OR FOLDED PAGES, NO PREVIOUS OWNER'S BOOK STAMPS INSIDE. IT IS TRULY AN AMAZING OUTSTANDING COPY!!!! 1ST PRINTING TOO!!!Please see pictures of covers as they constitute the majority of the description. Please ask any questions that you may have and I will be happy to answer themI have recently moved and must downsize my collection. If there is something you want, please let me know, and I will see if I have it. Mr. L’Amour received many great accolades and awards. In 1983 he became the first novelist ever to be awarded the National Gold Medal by the United States Congress in honor of his life’s work. In 1984, he was also awarded the medal of freedom by President Reagan. He also received the Spur award from the Western Writers of America, and the Theodore Roosevelt Award.Louis L’Amour thought of himself “in the oral tradition- as a troubadour, a village tale teller, the man in the shadows of the campfire. That’s the way I’d like to be remembered-as a storyteller. A good storyteller.”Not only could he physically fill the boots of the rugged characters he wrote about, but he literally “walked the land my characters walk.” “If I write about a water hole, that water hole is there and the water’s good to drink.” His personal experiences as well as his lifelong devotion to historical research combined to give Mr. L’Amour the unique knowledge and understanding of people, events, and the challenges of the American frontier that became the hallmarks of his popularity.As a boy growing up in Jamestown North Dakota, he absorbed all he could about the family’s frontier heritage, including the story of his great-grandfather who was scalped by Sioux warriors.”During his yondering years, he held a variety of jobs, including but not limited to, seaman, lumberjack, elephant handler, skinner of dead cattle, assessment miner, and officer on tank destroyers during World War II. He circled the globe on a freighter, and was stranded in the Mojave desert and shipwrecked in the West Indies. He won fifty-one of fifty-nine fights as a professional boxer, and worked as a journalist and lecturer. He was a voracious reader and collector of rare books. His personal library contained 17,000 volumes, many of which were diaries from pioneers and frontiersmen. He also had conversations with many of the last remaining lawmen and gunfighters from the frontier days, which no current author can accomplish.He eventually wrote 100 novels, over 250 short stories and (as of 2010) sold more than 320 million copies of his work. He is the best-selling western author of all time, out-selling Zane Grey by almost 100 million copies. He also ranks close to the top in American authors of all genres.All of his books are still in print, and forty-five of his novels and stories have been made into feature films and television movies.Shipped with USPS Media Mail.I have recently moved and must downsize my collection. I am always willing to combine shipping. Plus, if there is more than one item that you are interested in, contact me, and we will see if we can make a deal.

Price: 14.95 USD

Location: Bend, Oregon

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