BLUE BOOK Magazine (Bluebook Pulp - Adventures in Fact & Fiction) March 1952 // West of Quarantine by Todhunter Ballard // Rooster's Cockfighting Cover & Story "Not for the birds" by Horace Bailey Brown by Horace Bailey Brown; Todhunter Ballard; William Chamberlain; Joel Reeve; Albert M. Ottenheimer; Harold H. Prommel; Guy Emery; Phil Magee; John R. Pederson ; Morris Osofsky; Goodrich S. Walton; Fred Lane; John T. Dunlavy; Luther Locke; Joseph Lawrence; - 1952

USA.: McCall Corporation, 1952. Book. Illus. by George Englert Painted Cover Art!. VERY GOOD Minus. Soft cover. TRUE FIRST Edition MAGAZINE Format Thus.. BLUE BOOK - March 1952 MAGAZINE Vol. 94, No.5 SHORT STORIES - (1)"The Soiled Angel of Tsingchow" by William Chamberlain (Was this beautiful girl a traitor against her own brother's guerrillas?); (2) "Never Been Away!" by Joel Reeve (It takes a good fighter to say that wneh everyone claims he is finihsed.); (3) "One Bottle of Aquavit" by Albert M. Ottenheimer (Strange things happen at sea. Ghosts drink aquavit, for instance.); (4) "Tuesday in Times Square" by Harold H. Prommel (What was so spine-chilling that it literally frightened a man to death?); (5)"Never Kick a Kalinga" by Guy Emery (At least not when a dosen natives are after one beautiful white woman.); (6)"Too Eager a beaver" by Phil Magee (Even tough young cops make mistakes - especially the ambitious ones.); (7)"One Down to Blondie" by John R. Pederson (He was lost and alone - and in the enemy's path during the Bulge.); (8)"An Unhappy Burglar" by Morris Osofsky (The eldest son had always been the burglar. But he liked to pick pockets.); (9)"Instead of a Gun" by Goodrich S. Walton "A crackjack short-short story with a satisfying finale.); (10)"I've Killed a Man!" by Fred Lane (He had to stand and watch them frame him, tighter and tighter.); ARTICLES - (1)"The Match Game" by John T. Dunlavy (Amazing facts matches and users.); (2) "Bootleggers of the Tall Timber" by Luther Locke (The end of an incredible era in the already incredible Northwest.); (3)"How to Retire on $250 a Month" by Joseph Lawrence (A humorous diatribe against social security.); (4)"Fish Away!" by L.V. Julihn (A little-known episode that changed the course of the war.); (5)"They Call It a 'People's Army'" by Joseph Wechsberg (An inside look behind the Iron Curtain of the Czech army.); (6)"Easy Money" by Webb B. Garrison (One of the most amazing exploits of modern times.); (7) "Not for the birds" by Horace Bailey Brown (Meet the only sport that absolutely cannot be fixed by gamblers.); COMPLETE BOOK-LENGTH NOVEL - "West of Quarantine" by Todhunter Ballard (The line separating nesters and ranchers wore thinner and thinner.); >>> Rooster's Cockfighting cover; >>> Nice VG/FN example, but with minor waterstain to Right edge of cover & part top right corner of cover, thus still nice VG minus Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.