Town Tamer
by GRUBER, Frank
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Galena, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
New York: Rinehart & Company, 1958. Hardcover. 8vo. Light green paper over boards with white spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 221pp. Very good/very good. Text block lightly age toned as usual; faint jacket edgewear only. Tight and attractive first edition of this Western fiction -- to cite front jacket flap, "the fast-paced adventure of one man's efforts to calm the lawlessness rampant in this last boom town...." Gruber (1904-69) was a prolific pulp fiction writer who also penned many detective novels.
Reviews
On Mar 13 2020, a reader said:
Tom Rosser was a lawman without a town; he was now known as a gunfighter, a man with a mission--to shoot down the men who had killed his sweetheart. The town of Great Plains was the last and most violent boomtown, and the place drew every four-flush gamber, and gun for hire, and outlaw there was. And in this most vile place was Riley Condor the man Rosser was after. The town "fathers" knew if the town was to survive the undesireable element had to go, and a man like Rosser was just the man they needed. When Rosser learned Condor was there, it was a "no-brainer"; Rosser came as quickly as he could. But his plans were not exactly those of the townsmen.....The result was a bloody showdown no one expected. Frank Gruber always writes an historically based novel. Sometimes there are historical personages in them, sometimes places, and sometimes it is just the basis of the story. And here is another example. It is indeed a shame that publishers these days have pretty much forgotten the writers who made the western genre what it was--men like Frank Gruber, Ernest Haycox, even Zane Grey can't be found in your local book store anymore--thank God for Biblio who carries what is available.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 43701
- Title
- Town Tamer
- Author
- GRUBER, Frank
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Rinehart & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1958
- Bookseller catalogs
- Books; American Literature;
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About the Seller
Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
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