Search Results: Western from H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller

Garden City: Doubleday, 1981. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Estleman's western novel based on the legend of Wild Bill Hickok won the 1982 Golden Spur Award from the Western Writers of America; a tight, clean copy in a dustjacket showing some rubbing and very minor chipping at edges; dj's white back panel and flaps are slightly browned. Scarce and Collectable.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1988. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Pulitzer Prize winner McMurtry's novel about the William Bonney, the legendary outlaw and gunman known as Billy the Kid; a fine copy in like dustjacket. Collectable.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1977. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Jones' third historical western is based on the arrest of Sioux Chief Sitting Bull by U.S. authorities in December, 1890; boards and text clean, tight, square; dustjacket's white back panel somewhat soiled; minor edgewear, one small chip in lower edge of back panel. Collectable.

New York: Bantam Books, 1966. First Edition, First Printing. . Mass Market Paperback. Very Good to Near Fine. Vintage paperback, Bantam J3098; A contemporary western-mystery, one of L'Amour's few excursions into a genre and time period outside the traditional western; Paperback Original, True First Edition, First Printing; text is clean, tight, square, lightly age-tanned in pictorial wrappers with minor chipping top of spine, minimal other surface and edgewear. Collectable.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1990. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Pulitzer Prize-winning McMurtry's sixteenth book is a novel featuring Western legend Calamity Jane on her last great adventure as a member of Buffalo Bill's Wild West show; hardcover; First Printing of the First Edition; text is clean, tight, square; the dustjacket's front flap has vertical crease, o/w minimal surface and edgewear; Fine/Very Good.

New York: Bantam Books, 1963. First Edition, Second Printing. . Mass Market Paperback. Near Fine to Fine. Vintage paperback, Bantam F3604; L'Amour's Western tale of a Texas outlaw named Bijah Catlow, searching for a fortune in gold in Mexico with Indians in front of him and the U.S. Army behind; text is clean, tight, square, lightly age-tanned in pictorial wrappers showing only minimal creasing, other surface and edgewear.

New York: Dell, 1963. First Edition, First Printing. . Mass Market Paperback. Good to Good Plus. Vintage paperback, Dell 1359; A western set in Yuma, Arizona Territory, in 1875 featuring a lawyer searching for a killer in order to kill him; cover art by Harry Schaare; Paperback Original, True First Edition, First Printing; text is clean, tight, square, lightly age-browned in pictorial wrappers with heavy reading crease on front cover, crease on lower left corner of back cover, o/w minimal surface and edgewear.

New York: Bantam Books, 1969. First Edition, First Printing. . Mass Market Paperback. Near Fine to Fine. Vintage paperback, Bantam H4628; One of the best novels in this long-running, best-selling Western series by the genre's master craftsman; Paperback Original, True First Edition, First Printing; text is clean, square, tight, lightly age-tanned in pictorial wrappers showing minimal creasing, surface or edgewear. Collectable.

New York: Bantam Books, 1963. First Edition, First Printing. . Mass Market Paperback. Good Plus to Very Good. Vintage paperback, Bantam J2684; the all-time best-selling Western writer with a story of a young gunfighter looking for a peaceful existence as a cattle rancher; Paperback Original, True First Edition, First Printing; text is clean, tight, square, slightly age-browned in pictorial wrappers with light reading crease, small tear at base of spine, o/w minor surface and edgewear.

New York: Berkley Publishing Corp., 1968. First Edition Thus, Later Printing. . Mass Market Paperback. Near Fine to Fine. Vintage paperback, Berkley Medallion X1642; a story about a conspiracy to control water rights on a Nebraska range by pitting ranchers against farmers told by a greatly under-appreciated Western genre writer; Second Printing of First Paperback Edition; text is clean, tight, square in pictorial wrappers with very minimal surface and edgewear. Scarce.

New York: Bantam Books, 1969. First Edition, First Printing. . Mass Market Paperback. Fine to Very Fine. Vintage paperback, Bantam H3935; L'Amour, the best-selling master craftsman of the Western, tells the story of Matt Coburn, hired to bring law and order to a mining boom town; Paperback Original, True First Edition, First Printing; text is clean, tight, square, lightly age-tanned in pictorial wrappers showing almost no creasing, surface or edgewear. Scarce. Collectable.

New York: Bantam Books, 1997. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Fine/Fine. A collection of seven previously unpublished short stories and a novella by one of the grand masters of the western genre, with an afterword by L'Amour's son; this is an unread copy with the dustjacket showing just a trace of edgewear. Collectable.

New York: Bantam Books, 1963. First Edition, First Printing. . Mass Market Paperback. Good to Good Plus. Vintage paperback, Bantam A2512; The all-time, bestselling Western writer's story of Macon Fallon, a gambler who became a town builder; Paperback Original, True First Edition, First Printing; pages 85-90 have manufacturing defects that do not affect text, small stains on pages 2 and 3, o/w text is clean, tight, square, slightly age-browned in worn but whole pictorial wrappers showing small, tape-repaired tear at base of spine.

New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1987. First Printing, First Edition Thus. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. A 'Max Brand' western (Faust wrote over 30 under this pseudonymn) is always a guarantee of fast, violent action and this novel is no exception. Originally published in Argosy Magazine in 1925 and for the first time in hardcover in 1927, this is a story of a stranger who throws the gunfighters out of town and then takes on the area's biggest rancher, the father of the woman he wanted to marry. A small remainder dot on the top edge of the text, o/w boards and text are clean, tight, square; dustjacket shows very minimal surface and edgewear. A fine, collectable copy.

New York: Bantam Books, 1973. First Edition, First Printing. . Mass Market Paperback. Very Good to Near Fine. Vintage paperback, Bantam N7568; L'Amour's western adventure novel is set in the early 1800's, when there were still more buffalo than cattle, more trappers than cowboys, and features Ronan Chantry, an easterner with one of the first breech-loading rifles; Paperback Original, True First Edition, First Printing; text is clean, square, tight, lightly age-tanned in pictorial wrappers showing a minimum of creasing, surface and edgewear.

New York: Bantam Books, 1965. First Edition, Later Printing. . Mass Market Paperback. Good Plus to Very Good. Vintage paperback, Bantam J3000; L'Amour, the master craftsman of the Western, tells the story of Cullen Baker, the Texan who developed the first fast draw; Paperback Original, First Edition, Fourth Printing; text is clean, tight, square, lightly age-browned in pictorial wrappers with minimal creasing, minor surface and edgewear.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1927. First Edition. . Hardcover. Good Plus to Very Good. Grey was the first great bestselling writer of the Western genre, the author of more than 150 books including "Riders of the Purple Sage," and "The Last of the Plainsmen." "Forlorn River" features Ben Ide, a young man desperately trying to be successful as a horse trader where his greatest adversary is his father, who considers Ben a good-for-nothing failure. Ben risks everything in an effort to capture a herd of wild horses, also coveted by a gang of cattle thieves. Distrusted by the woman he loves, hunted by outlaw killers, Ben makes his stand at the edge of the Forlorn River. First Edition, First Printing. 338 pages, plus three pages of publisher's ads, in red cloth-covered boards with black lettering and front cover decoration. (Sorry, no jacket.) Worn along bottom edge of front cover and spine. Previous owner's name neatly written on inside front cover, front interior… Read More

New York: Hyperion, 1996. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Harrison's second novel and the second in her humorous, contemporary-western mystery series featuring Sheriff Jules Clement of Blue Deer, Montana; a Fine copy in like dustjacket. Collectable.

New York: Avon Books, 1963. Mass Market Paperback. Good Plus to Very Good. Vintage Paperback - Avon F-189: Western writer Fox's story of a rich, empire-builiding, ranch owner's attempt to drive an upstart homesteader off unused and unusable land and the stubborn, solitary homesteader, who was a former rancher and town marshall. Mass market paperback. First printing, first Avon edition. 144 pages in pictorial wrappers with front cover showing a single man holding a revolver and looking off cover with a covered wagon and cabin behind him. Blue and white lettering on cover and spine. Wrappers show reading crease, other minor surface and edge wear. No tears, no chipping. Text is lightly age-tanned in margins o/w clean, complete and unmarked, binding tight and square. Not ex-library, not remaindered. Rapidly becoming scarce.

New York: Henry Holt, 1987. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Spur Award winner Jones creates storyteller Shanks Caulder to paint a picture of small town life in 1930's America in ten related short stories featuring the residents of Weedy Rough, Arkansas. Collectable.