PEACE MARSHAL (Violence on the Kansas Frontier) by GRUBER, FRANK - (first PB 1947),

Random House Publishing Group, 1981. Paperback. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

London: Arthur Barker, 1957. First British Edition . Hardcover. Good/Good. Owner's bookplate to pastedown. See my other Gruber titles.

bantam book, , (Reprints Century 60), . 1741, almost near fine, western novel, paperback,

century digest, , (first PB 1947), . 60, very good + western novel,

New York: William Morrow & Company, 1939. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Red cloth with yellow lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 281pp. Near fine/very good. Jacket lightly edgeworn, but bright and nice. Quite tight and handsome first edition of this shoot-em-up Western paired with a colorful Grosset & Dunlap d.j. Tale of Kansas lawman John Bonniwell and basis for the 1943 film "The Sheriff of Kansas." Gruber (1904-69) was a prolific pulp fiction writer who also penned many detective novels.

New York: William Morrow & Company, 1939., 1939. First edition. First edition. Author's first book. In Broken Lance, Kansas, John Bonniwell averts the Jesse James gang from holding up the town bank, but is severely wounded in the process. When he awakes in the hospital, he finds that he has been elected town marshall, with high recommendations from the bank owner and leading citizen, Steve Barat. Bonniwell accepts the job (especially after getting an eyeful of the hotel owner Eleanor Sager) even though he knows that he was only appointed to become a pawn in Barat's scheme to bleed Broken Lance, and the Kansas, dry. Bonniwell's position is put to the test when Barat sues Bonniwell's friend Waggoner for running his cattle without paying the $1 a head toll enforced by Barat. When he sees that Bonniwell isn't going to be controlled so easily, Barat has Bonniwell's enemies go after him. Former owner's name, but covered by the dust jacket flap, words, "A. W. Kuns Rental… Read More

Arthur Barker, 1957. DJ has slight marks and slight edge creases, slight rubbing to top of spine & top corners, else very clean, not price clipped. Inside clean & tight.. 1st UK Edition. Good/Good. G. Hardback.