Bitter Sage
by Gruber, Frank
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine in Very Good+ dj
- Seller
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Los Angeles, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: Rinehart & Company, Inc.. Near Fine in Very Good+ dj. (c.1954). First Edition. Hardcover. [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 breaking his oath, leaves for the frontier town of Sage City, Kansas," where he "hires out as a printer for the local paper and is plunged into the murderous affairs of the town." Basis for the 1956 film TENSION AT TABLE ROCK, directed by Charles Marquis Warren (an early producer of the "Gunsmoke" TV series), and starring Richard Egan, Dorothy Malone and Cameron Mitchell. .
Reviews
On Mar 13 2020, a reader said:
Wes Tancred accused of a murder he can't prove he didn't do, flees, changing his name and his manner--he takes off his guns--hoping to hide among the influx of people the railroad was bringing to Sage City. When Hong Kong Smith and his gang of murders rode into town and began killing innocent people, it changed things for Wes. His guns had to go on again. Master story teller Frank Gruber has done a magnificent job in the telling of this story. It reads like a movie the way the scenes change and the dialogue from the characters comes out. Great book.
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Details
- Bookseller
- ReadInk
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 19182
- Title
- Bitter Sage
- Author
- Gruber, Frank
- Illustrator
- (dj design) Phil J. Fiorello
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine in Very Good+ dj
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Rinehart & Company, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- (c.1954)
- Keywords
- Western Fiction, Kansas, Gunfighters, Movie Source
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