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ADOBE WALLS. A Novel of the Last Apache Rising.
Edition: First Edition
New York: Knopf, 1953. Octavo, 279 pp. Printed boards, top edges yellow. Slight remains of a label on rear pastedown; slight rubbing to spine tips and outer corners; light yellowing to endpapers and page edges; else a VG tight copy, no owner names. The dust jacket has chips to spine tips and outer corners; rubbing to spine and flap folds; partial splits to flap folds; three digit ink number on spine; just good, flap price intact. Basis of the 1953 film "Arrowhead".
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 20053More details Price: USD $35.00 USD $31.50 -
BANNISTER OF MARBLE RANGE
London: The Literary Press, no date, 1930. Blue boards decoratively gilt stamped. vi, 241, [5, ads] pp. Pulpy text paper yellowed , light rubbing to spine tips, otherwise a VG copy. Dust jacket (yellow background) has corner chips to spine and outer corners of panels, VG otherwise, colours bright. Ca. 1930s? cheap reprint. First was Collins, 1930. Note: light parcel, any default shipping may be reduced.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover.
Book ID: 22742More details Price: USD $18.95 USD $17.06 -
BITTER CREEK
Edition: First printing
New York: Scribner's, 1939. Brown cloth gilt lettered, endpaper maps. Light foxing and yellowing to page edges, else fine. Jacket has some tiny chips, short edge tears; two inch tear to front panel internally repaired; a VG, attractive example still, with the colours bright. The only Western novel of this noted American historical novelist, author of DRUMS.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 652More details Price: USD $29.95 USD $26.96 -
CANYON OF PERIL
New York: Grosset & Dunlap. Ca 1930s reprint (first as Watt, 1935). Green cloth lettered in black, green top page edges. Covers a bit mottled, light yellowing to page edges and endpapers; VG+ otherwise. Dust jacket has a chip across head of spine with loss of much of "Canyon"; a few short tears to folds with old internal tape stain; corner clip to front flap; VG otherwise, attractive.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 52335More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96 -
DESERT PASSAGE.
Edition: First edition.
New York: Ballantine Books, 1953. The uncommon hardcover issue. Green boards stamped in red. Light rubbing to spine tips, page edges yellowed, else fine. Yellow jacket has a bit sunned spine; fingernail size chip to lower inner corner of front panel and spine corner; shallow chips to head of spine; one inch edge tear to front panel; light dust soiling to panels; VG otherwise. A western novel from the period when Ballantine was doing mostly paperback originals, with a small more or less simultaneous issue in hardcover.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover.
Book ID: 8833More details Price: USD $21.95 USD $19.76 -
FAIR BLOWS THE WIND
Edition: First edition
New York: Dutton, 1978. Brown cloth. Book a little leaned, minor foxing to page edges, VG+ clean and unworn otherwise, no owner names. Dust jacket has a two inch creased to lower inner corner of rear panel, vertical crease to rear flap, VG otherwise, flap price intact. An historical novel of the 16th century set in Ireland, England, and the New World.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 51707More details Price: USD $16.95 USD $15.26 -
KNIGHTS OF THE RANGE
Edition: First Canadian edition
Toronto: Musson, 1940. Grey cloth lettered in black with a red bar to spine and front cover, red top page edges. pp [2], (6), 308, [4]. Vertical ridge to spine, yellowing to fore and bottom page edges, else fine, red top edges quite bright. Price-clipped jacket has a creased tear to lower outer corner of front panel; lightly sunned spine has vertical creases, creased nicks and small chips to ends; small chips and tears to outer corners; VG otherwise, still presentable in appearance. Dated at foot of title page.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 52347More details Price: USD $60.00 USD $54.00 -
LIVELIEST TOWN IN THE WEST
Edition: First printing
New York: Doubleday, 1969. Green cloth. Bit of yellowing to fore edges, else fine. Price-clipped jacket has light rubbing, VG otherwise. "Dime novel heroes and wild West shows - a spoof on the West that never was."
Condition: Binding: Hardcover.
Book ID: 52356More details Price: USD $12.95 USD $11.66 -
LONE STAR SILVER. A "Jim Hatfield" Texas Ranger Story.
Edition: First edition.
New York: M. S. Mill, 1939. Black cloth stamped in silver, red top edges. 256 pp. Ex drug store lending library copy with rubber stamp on front pastedown (hidden by jacket flap), date stamps to rear endpaper, a few smudge marks in text margins; bump to lower outer corners of covers otherwise a VG, tight and bright unworn copy. Price-clipped black and silver dust jacket is trimmed along upper and lower edges and the whole backed with gauze; vertical spine crease; light rubbing to the panels; flap corners clipped; else VG, bright, still attractive. First novel in the "Jim Hatfield" series, scarce in first edition, especially in jacket.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover.
Book ID: 22740More details Price: USD $50.00 USD $45.00 -
MAN OUTGUNNED
Edition: First printing
New York: Doubleday, 1976. Black boards. Nearly fine in VG jacket. Colorado setting. A Double D Western.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 52352More details Price: USD $9.95 USD $8.96 -
"NEVADA": a romance of the West
Edition: First Canadian issue
Toronto: Musson, 1928. Tan linen grain pictorial cloth stamped in black. Sepia on cream pictorial endpapers. (vi), 365 pp. Ink name at front hidden by jacket flap, light yellowing to page edges, else fine. Jacket has a three inch closed tear to front panel, a couple of shorter edge tears; tiny rubbed chips to spine tips, corners, tiny chip to rear panel; but a bright, VG example otherwise, 2.00 flap price intact. A nice copy of an uncommon edition, published the same year as the US first but much scarcer. Musson unindicated reprints abound but actual firsts do not. Jacket and endpaper art by Stockton Mulford.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 508More details Price: USD $85.00 USD $76.50 -
PAINTED PONIES
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 10630More details Price: USD $95.00 USD $85.50 -
RESTLESS GUNS
London: 1935. Third UK printing (first was Chelsea, 1929). Collins' Wild West Club. Blue cloth lettered in black. Narrow strips of sunning to ends of spine; yellowing to page edges and endpapers; near fine otherwise. Dust jacket has a chip across head of spine affecting top of "Restless", VG, bright, attractive othewise.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 52336More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96 -
RIDERS OF THE CHAPARRAL
New York: Grosset & Dunlap. Ca 1930s reprint (first was Greenberg, 1935). Orange cloth, spine lettered in black, blue top page edges. Yellowing to fore and bottom page edges and to inner margins of endpapers, else fine. Dust jacket has small rubbed chips to spine ends, one small hole, generally VG otherwise, colours bright, attractive. Our hero rides with Pancho Villa.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 52348More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96 -
SAM CHANCE (signed)
Edition: First printing
New York: Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1965. Cloth & boards. Spine faintly sunned, gilt lettering a mite dulled; light yellowing to page edges; else fine. Jacket has mild wear to spine ends, minor soiling to rear panel, price-clipped, VG+ otherwise. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR (simple ink signature at front). Winner of the 1966 WWA Spur Award. The story of a cattleman in Northest Texas from after the Civil War until the early 20th century. Capps was a well-regarded western (and other) writer who won numerous prizes. His papers are at U Texas Arlington.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 52353More details Price: USD $65.00 USD $58.50 -
SMOKY WATERS
New York: A.L. Burt. Ca. 1930's reprint (first was Macrae-Smith, 1935). Orange cloth srtamped in black, brown top page edges. Soft corner bump to front cover, light yellowing to page edges, else fine. Jacket has small chips to head of lightly darkened spine, else fine. Cattle ranchers battle a corrupt state senator and his political cronies over water rights. Quite a nice copy.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 52333More details Price: USD $24.95 USD $22.46 -
STAIRS OF SAND
Edition: First Canadian issue
Toronto: Musson, 1945. Green cloth. Small creases at head of spine, narrow band of light sunning to bottom margin of front cover, two small ink cross-outs in corner of front free endpaper, light yellowing to page edges, else fine. Dust jacket has nicks, rubbing, and small chip at head of spine, light rubbing to front spine and flap folds, creased nick and small corner chip to upper outer corner of front panel; in all, a VG attractive example. Much less common than the 1943 Harper first.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 48690More details Price: USD $45.00 USD $40.50 -
THE BLACK HORSEMAN
Edition: First printing
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1933. Orange pictorial cloth stamped in black, purplish top page edges. Fine copy. Dust jacket has nicks and tiny chips to ends of lightly soiled spine, else fine. An original G&D publication, not a reprint.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 52350More details Price: USD $24.95 USD $22.46 -
THE BLEEDING LAND
Edition: First printing
New York: Doubleday, 1965. Greyish cloth. A little leaned, yellowing to page edges, else fine. Dust jacket has shallow rubbed chips and nicks to spine ends, some rubbing, good. A Double D Western. "Bleeding Kansas" in the 1850s, pro vs anti slavery.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 52351More details Price: USD $9.95 USD $8.96 -
THE CALL OF THE CANYON
Edition: First Canadian edition
Toronto / New York: Musson / Harper, 1924. Orange pictorial cloth stamped in black. 4 plates. Slight yellowing to page edges, front cover just a little bowed, else fine and bright. The dust jacket has a large chip to head of spine with loss of most of the title; shallow chip across foot of spine; small chips and short tears to outer corners and lower edges of panels; in all just fair but colour bright, front panel showing well. "First Edition" stated, $2.00 flap price, flap copy printed in blue. Rear flap advertises THE MAGPIE by Douglas Durkin (1923) and THE PATTERSON LIMIT by Madge Macbeth. No Harper code on verso of title leaf. Printed in Canada
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 52354More details Price: USD $50.00 USD $45.00