(no dust jacket) [considerable external wear, but still a solid reading copy; ex-lending library, with large stamp for Hayman's I.D.A. Pharmacy (city unstated) on ffep and half-title/blurb page]. A romance of the West, involving Native American characters: "What made Red Hawk flinch from the bloody rites of the Cheyenne tribal traditions, when he reached the age of eighteen? He was known to be strong and courageous yet he could not go through with it. Dismissed from his tribe, in disgrace, he took refuge among the whites and fell in love with Maisry Lester." View More...
(no dust jacket) [moderate shelfwear, some browning/spotting to page edges, light bumps and slight fraying to cloth at bottom corners, one-time owner's signature in pencil on ffep, tiny tear at fore-edge of title page]. Crime novel that segues to a Western setting about halfway through (hence the Western-motif front-cover decoration of a man on horseback waving a large hat), by this prolific pulp novelist, one of eleven books he wrote under the Baxter pseudonym between 1923 and 1935. This tells the exploits of "Geraldi, dashing knight errant, [who] is a modern Robin Hood who preys only up... View More...
(price-clipped) [book is almost flawless, with just the slightest bump to the bottom front corner, pages very lightly age-toned (much less than often seen in these cheaply-produced volumes), one-time owner's signature at top of ffep; jacket is lightly edgeworn, tiny chip at base of spine, small unobtrusive closed tear at top rear foldover]. "Ross Chance had travelled a long way to get to this spot -- across a thousand miles of bleak range and five years of galling pride and bitter loneliness. In those years his land had been taken and his father killed. He had no evidence -- nothing tha... View More...
(no dust jacket) [moderate wear and slight fraying to cloth at spine ends, a bit of bumping and minor fraying to bottom corners, old bookseller's rubber stamp (Bertrand Smith Acres of Books) on front pastedown, spine lettering rubbed (or faded) to unreadability]. (frontispiece drawing) Seven short stories with Western settings, reprinted from various popular fiction periodicals of the day (including Argosy All-Story, Munsey's and Weird Tales), sandwiched between sections featuring similarly-themed verse ("songs," I guess), musings, aphorisms, etc. View More...
[very light bumping to bottom corners, spine very slightly turned, one-time owner's signature at top of front pastedown; jacket well-worn at edges and corners, some paper loss at both ends of spine, crease down middle of spine, soiling to rear panel]. Another "novel of violence and primitive passions," although it's hard to imagine the author having had much of that left over after his earlier novel, "Duel in the Sun." "Sun," of course, was made into one of the most famously overheated movies of the Forties (or any decade, really), whereas the film of "The Furies,&... View More...
(price-clipped) [nice clean copy, attractive vintage bookplate on front pastedown, bottom front corner lightly bumped; jacket mildly edgeworn, a few small tears, some sunning along spine]. Novel set in the Wyoming Territory in 1886, and revolving around a full-blooded Araphoe Indian who had been adopted and raised by a U.S. Army officer and his wife after his father had been killed in a fight with another tribe, and his mother had left to get help but had never returned. Now a grown man (and an ordained minister!), he is reunited with his mother, and takes up residence on the Araphoe reserva... View More...
[nice clean copy, mild shelfwear, spine a little turned; jacket in great shape, minor surface-scratching to front panel, light staining on spine from removal of label (this jacket having been "salvaged" from an ex-library copy of the book and transferred to this copy]. "Sheer entertainment, an old-fashioned, rip-roaring adventure story set in the American West following the Civil War." View More...
[nice copy, clean and tight with minimal shelfwear, spine very slightly turned; jacket mildly rubbed, shows a bit of wear at spine extremities]. "A novel of high adventure in the pioneer West." View More...
[very minor shelfwear, a remarkably clean and solid copy, small vintage price sticker (from The White House, San Francisco department store) on rear pastedown; jacket has a large chunk missing at upper corner of rear panel (no loss of any text), a couple of tiny closed tears, very slight paper loss at a couple of corners]. "Hawke was a thoroughly bad hombre; he killed, staged hold-ups, rustled horses, and ran crooked gambling joints. But he never double-crossed a friend, a partner, or even a 'sucker' who trusted him, and to abuse a woman or a child was to invite his swift and devastating... View More...
[beautiful copy, the tiniest bump/nick to cloth at rear bottom corner of spine; jacket has the teensiest trace of soiling to the front panel, but essentially appears almost brand-new]. (A Double D Western) Series "It was an ironic twist of fate that put the life of Walsh Camden in Del Kittridge's hands. Camden had been a good friend of Del's father until a bitter quarrel turned friendship to hate. Everyone in the community took sides in the feud that followed, and the elder Kittridge had been murdered, his ranch burned, and his son run out of town. Now a Mexican bandit was holding Camde... View More...
[one-time owner's signature at top of ffep, otherwise a nice clean book with just a touch of wear at base of spine; jacket shows a little edge- and surface-wear]. "Wes Trancred's name was known throughout the West -- and hated. For his was the gun that killed Sam Older who, legend had it, robbed from the rich to give to the poor. It didn't matter that the legend was false, that Tancred had killed in self-defence. He became the villain of story and ballad, and vowed never to touch a gun again." After going incognito for a time, he is "forced into gunplay and, hating himself for... View More...
[ex-rental library book ("Boulevard Book Shop" stamped on front pastedown, handwritten circulation slip on rear endpaper), the book itself only moderately worn; the jacket, however, is firmly affixed to the book at both flaps, has been unevenly trimmed by about 1/8"-1/4" along the bottom edge, and has suffered some paper loss to the upper spine extremities and the top right corner of the front panel]. The only published novel by this noted screenwriting team, a legendary (though now largely forgotten) duo who were the epitome of the fast-thinking, seat-of-the-pants story-pitchers of Hollywood... View More...
(price-clipped) [good solid book, a couple of small spots at top edge of ffep; jacket worn and mildly chipped along top edge, spine sunned]. A novel of family loyalties, set against the opening of the Cherokee Strip to settlers. View More...
[moderate wear to bottom edges and extremities, tiny stain on bottom edge of text block, age-toning to edges of text block; jacket has numerous chips and tears, especially on the rear panel]. Comic-western novel about the owner of a failing dude ranch, stuck with "a houseful of bored guests who expect excitement and there are no Indians, cattle rustlers or cowboys to supply it." When a traveling theatrical troupe is stranded nearby, he hires them to "put on some fake Wild Western stuff," but the farce is complicated when a real gang of rum runners inserts itself into the pict... View More...
[good clean copy, minor wear to cloth at spine ends, small remainder mark on bottom edge; jacket has a little surface wear, mild wrinkling along top edge]. A "bawdy, funny, breathlessly readable novel," with a hero reminiscent of a younger Rooster Cogburn (of Charles Portis's True Grit). Set during the Mexican Revolution. View More...
(price-clipped) [very nice copy, slight bump to upper rear corner, no other discernible wear; jacket shows just a trace of wear here and there at edges and corners]. Novel about "a hard-bitten, Irish-born cavalryman assigned to Fort Sill after the Civil War, and placed in charge of some Negro recruits whose unwelcome mission is to escort a band of Comanches on their last buffalo hunt before these Indians are confined to a reservation." View More...
(price-clipped) [one-time owner's signature at top of ffep, otherwise tight and clean with the teensiest bit of wear at spine ends; jacket lightly worn at extremities, with a few tiny edge-tears]. (Silver Star Westerns) Series The story of an outlaw, the Apache Kid, and how his escape from a pursuing posse is aided by a strong-willed woman who falls in love with him. An uncommon Roan title. View More...
[solid copy, square and tight, moderate shelfwear, some soiling/spotting to page edges; attractive pictorial jacket shows some wear at edges and corners, moderate soiling visible due to light-colored background, one tiny chip at top of front panel]. "A vivid story of the last of the cattle barons and his rip-roaring cowboy band of nomadic riders so fast disappearing." View More...
[moderately shelfworn, spine a bit turned, previous owner's signature at top of ffep; jacket is worn with bits of paper loss at most corners, and a previous owner has neatly but rather excessively repaired/reinforced the jacket with clear tape in numerous places]. First novel by a film and radio writer who later achieved great success in television (notably as producer/writer/director on "Gunsmoke" and "Rawhide"). The book, set in the Southwest during the 1870s, is centered around a small army post besieged by Apaches. Filmed in 1951 with Gregory Peck, who held it in rather lo... View More...
(no dust jacket) [solid but shelfworn reading copy, bumping to most corners and spine ends, cloth slightly frayed at several corners and at top of spine, spine cloth a bit faded, light dampstaing to front cover]. The author's second novel, a family saga set during the Colorado mining boom, which began in the 1870s and extending into the early years of the 20th century. The reviewer for the New York Times claimed it was "the first modern, realistic novel .... to deal with one of the fantastic true stories of American expansion, one which is a legend in his family." Eventually, the saga... View More...
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