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New York: Scribner, 2005. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. No specific defects, just a very good used book, clean and bright, unmarked, solid glued binding. Short stories of the American West, peopled by characters who struggle with circumstances beyond their control. Annie Proulx is a master storyteller of the West. Her stories are humorous and black at the same time. 219 pages, 8 x 5.25 inches. 2005, Scribner, USA

Columbia Falls, Montana: Skyline Pub Co, 2002. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Signed by Author. Signed by Author Signed by Author Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Signed by the Author on the inside of the front cover. Book Two in the Valediction for Revenge Series, featuring the adventures of Jethro Spring, a fugitive wanted for killing a U.S.Army Major who was responsible for brutally murdering his parents. Set in Southeastern New Mexico. Clean and bright heavy cover is hinged, corner tips creased, page edges clean as are pages, no markings. Sound binding, square. 227 pages. 5.5 x 8.5 inches. Skyline Publishing Co., Columbia Falls, Montana, 2002.

New York: Barse & Hopkins, 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hard Back First Printing. Hardcover Book in Good Condition. No jacket. 308 pages. Western novel , published 1927--hard to find edition. Green cloth w/black titles, is clean, darkening along edges, all edges rubbed, corners and spine edges beginning to fray. Sewn binding is tight and solid. Pages generally clean and toned, with a light stain on the title page, table of contents and pp 8/9. p.225 has small piece missing from lower corner. P 111/112 has small chip on upper edge. Barse & Hopkins Publishers, NY, 1927.

USA: Heyday Books, 1997. First Thus. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7. First Heyday Books Printing, Trade Paperback in Near Fine Condition. Clean, bright, unmarked, tight glued binding. No defects. Tales by a master storyteller that seem to come from 'around the capfire', where, in his US West, tales and lies around the campfire were a major form of entertainment. Here are fifteen stories of the California Gold Rush days, where the reader will meet miners, pistol-packing preachers, iron-willed women, philosophical gamblers--all sorts of interesting folks. 178 pages. 8.5 x 5.5 inches. Heyday Books, Berkeley, California, U.S.A., 1997.

USA: Simon and Schuster, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7? - 9?" tall. Simon and Schuster, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover Book and Dust Jacket As New. The life and times of Calamity Jane in the United States West, a woman whose past embraces the whole short, violent, passionate history of the West, from the mountain men who first made their way into Montana, Wyoming, and the Dakotas in search of beaver pelts, to the buffalo hunters who destroyed the great herds, to the gun fighters like Wild Bill Hickock, and to the Indians and soldiers who fought the final battles that made the West no longer the wild West Binding of red cloth over spine with grey boards. Bright, clean, unmarked, tight & solid volume. 350 pages. 6.4 x 9.5 inches. 1990, Simon & Schuster, New York, New York, USA

USA: Simon and Schuster, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7? - 9?" tall. Simon and Schuster, 1900. First Edition. Hardcover Book and Dust Jacket As New. The life and times of Calamity Jane in the United States West, a woman whose past embraces the whole short, violent, passionate history of the West, from the mountain men who first made their way into Montana, Wyoming, and the Dakotas in search of beaver pelts, to the buffalo hunters who destroyed the great herds, to the gun fighters like Wild Bill Hickock, and to the Indians and soldiers who fought the final battles that made the West no longer the wild West. Bound in red cloth over spine with grey boards. Bright, clean, unmarked, tight & solid volume. 350 pages. 6.4 x 9.5 inches. 1990, Simon & Schuster, New York, New York, USA

USA: Leisure Books, 1993. Mass Market Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6?" - 7?" tall. Mass Market Paperback in Good Condition. Light edgewear, lower front spine corner scruffed. A story of a man born Indian, raised white, who swore he would die a free man. 170 pages. 12mo - over 6?" - 7?" tall. 1993, Leisure Books, USA

New York, New York USA: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers, 1902. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Type: Hardback 1902 Special Limited Edition Hardcover Book in Fair Condition. No jacket. Clean old book, a good western story. 1902 perspective, of the Indian Wars and Captain Curtis who took part in those wars but was a friend of the indians; he was a friend who would lose his life to protect his friends. Binding of olive green full cloth with black titles and decoration stamped on spine and front, with three-line border on front panel. Rubbing with moderate wear to extremities. Nice appearance. Backstrap completely loosened from crash with hinge area scuffed. Date hand-written on endpaper. Text block edges darkened. Pages are moderately toned but quite clean, shadow at hinge ares on pages 406-407 from something left in the book a long time and page 407 has a small tear to upper edge; may be a smudge on a page or two but mostly unmarked, no… Read More

New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 2003. Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7? - 9?" tall. Trade Paperback in Good Condition. Clean and unmarked wraps, light spine creases, tips of rear lower corner on a few pages darkened; solid and tight glued binding. Pages lightly toned, quite clean, no markings of any kind. A story of the West in the 1880s about friendship, loyalty, love and justice. 292 pages. 5.5 x 8.25 inches. 2003, St. Martin's Griffin, New York.

New Jersey, USA: Kensington Pub Corp, 1993. Mass Market Paperback. Good. 12mo - over 6?" - 7?" tall. Mass Market Paperback in Good Condition. 253 pages. A novel of the early U. S. Cavalry. The brave men of the U. S. Dragoons take on the fiercest outlaw gang in the West. Kensington Pub Group, New Jersey, 1993.

USA: Leisure Books, 2007. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6?" - 7?" tall. Mass Market Paperback in Very Good Condition. Bright and clean in Easy-to-Read print. Trace wear to cover edges. Glued binding tight and solid, square. Pages clean and unmarked, no creases. Vengeance is the theme of this western by the world's celebrated western writer, Joe Good, who refuses to carry a gun, is determined to take out the ranchers who killed his father. 292 pages. 6.75 x 5.25 inches. 2007, Leisure Books, USA

Bantam, 1979. Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6. Bantam Books Mass Market Paperback Published June 1979. This is reissue edition October 2005. In Very Good Condition. Clean and unmarked, light cover edge wear, spine creases, slight lean to spine, glued binding sold. Internals toned, else fine. 227 pages. 12mo. 199spone creases, Bantam Books. ISBN10: 0553248448, ISBN13: 9780553248449,

New York and London: Liveright Publishers, 2015. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7? - 9?" tall. Trade Paperback in Near Fine Condition. Clean, unmarked, tight and solid book, most gently used. Larry McMurtry chronicles the closing of the American frontier through the travails of two of its most immortal figures, Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday. From Texas to Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show in Denver, to Tomstone, Arizona, Wyatt and Doc live out their last days of a cowboy lifestyle that is already passing into history. McMurtry writes of the myths and men that live on even as the storied West that made them disappears. 196 pages. 5.5 x 8.25 inches. 2015, Liveright Publishers, New York and London

Chicago, Illinois: The Fountain Press, 1965. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Howard Mueller. Type: Hardback Type: Hard Back Hardcover Book in Very Good Condition, w/o jacket, Six original illustrations by Howard Mueller. This is the most significant and most representative work of America's first local color writer, Bret Harte, 1836-1902, casting a picturesque glamour about life in the California mining camps in the days following the California Gold Rush of 1949. Bright red cloth with gilt outlined and decorated panel, gilt lettered on front and elaborately decorated gilt backstrap. Very clean, with a colorless line scrape with a shape sort of like a tie over and extending below the panel on front; light edgewear of corners and spine heel, spine head has a quarter inch tear to the cloth. Tight and solid. Frontis: humorous illustration b/w. Interior is Fine-very clean, no markings, delightful illustrations. 309 pages. 8.75 x 6 inches. The Fountain Press,… Read More

U.S.A: Tor Books/Tom Doherty Associates Inc, 1990. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6?" - 7?" tall. Mass Market Paperback in Very Good Condition. Bright and clean in Easy-to-Read print. Trace wear to cover edges. Glued binding tight and solid, square. Pages clean and unmarked, no creases. 185 pages. 6.75 x 5.25 inches. 1990, Tor Books/Tom Doherty Associates Inc., USA

New York: Bantam Books, 1985. Mass Market Paperback. Good. 12mo - over 6?" - 7?" tall. Western Mass Market Paperback in Good Condition. 168 pages. The Sackett family, a pioneer family created by master storyteller Louis L'Amour to bring to vivid life the spirit and adventure of the American frontier. 168 pp. 12mo. 1985, Bantam Books.

USA: Grosset & Dunlap, 1921. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7. Type: Hardback Hardcover Book in Fair Condition. Green pictorial cloth with a cowgirl on a horse on front, black titles. It is clean with some discoloration of the binding. Binding is tight, spine is cocked. Rear inner hinge cracked. Spine is sunned. Text block edges darkened with light foxing. Internals are clean and unmarked, no creases, pages toned. Informational piece from missing jacket is affixed to the endpaper. Quite good condition for the age of the book and a great Zane Grey Western. 336 pages. 7.75 x 5 inches. 1921, Grosset & Dunlap, New York, New York, USA

Peoria, AZ: John McLaughlin Books, 2010. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Signed by Author. Signed by Author Signed by Author Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Signed and Inscribed by Author on Title Page. Clean and bright pictorial cover with cover art by Jonathan McLaughlin, Arizona western scene. Trace wear to lower corner edge and spine heel. Soundly bond, Pages clean, bright, not toned, no marks, no creases. A novel of the Old Southwest at the turn of the 20th century, set in Arizona where a small contingent of Arizona Rangers led by an old grizzled Ranger named Elliot must rid the territory of rustlers and outlaws in order to protect its citizens. 219 pages. 5.5 x 8.5 inches. John McLaughlin Books, Peoria, AZ, 2010.

New York: Bantam Books, 1963. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6?" - 7?" tall. Mass Market Paperback in Very Good Condition. Really nice copy of this vintage western--Luke Short's outstanding novel of a cattle town with only 24 hours left to live. Pages are tanned. 150 pages. 1963, Bantam Books.

Indianapolis, Indiana: The Bobbs-Merril Company, 1920. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7? - 9?" tall. The Bobbs-Merril Company, 1920. Hardback Early reprint of this hard-to-find adventurous western/cowboy tale of the Old West, United States. Hardcover Book in Fair Condition, no Jacket. 323 pages. 5" x 7.75" tall. Red cloth w/ black titles; clean with no marking on cloth; cover edgeworn, upper front corner has split cloth about 3/4" down from corner; lower front corner bumped, tape around spine heel and up rear spine hinge. Sewn binding remains tight. Front endpaper missing. Frontispiece by W.H.D.Koerner. Pages generally clean, first few pages with damp stain on upper corner, illustration on coated paper between pp 162/163 is loose from binding. Worn 90 year old book in reasonably good condition, clean and unmarked print. Basis for the 1923 Universal Pictures black and white silent film directed by Edward Sedgwick and starring Hoot Gibson and Laura La Pante. The novel also… Read More