Search Results: Titles starting with P from Darwin Labordo Books

Philadelphia, Henry Altemus Co., [1906].. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine. Yellow cloth, near fine. First edition. Six Score 6: "An important item in the literature of meat packing. In 1905 Charles E. Russell, a prominent muckraker, had published.an attack on the packers entitled The Greatest Trust in the World. Russell's investigations dealt primarily with the Beef Trust's control of the shipping lines and its use of illegal rebates. J. Ogden Armour, who was generally accepted as the spokesman for the Beef trust, replied-present(ed) a defense of the packing interests." Herd 167.

Desert Magazine, 1960. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Dust jacket with some wear and chipping, book near fine. First edition.

Alfred A, Knopf, 1979. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Edited by Brian W. Dippie. Fine copy in dust jacket. First edition. Not to be confused with the work of the same title issued in 1962.

Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, 1962. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Introduction and Commentary by Frederic G. Renner. Boards, acetate jacket, fine copy. First edition. Yost & Renner 68. Loring Campbell. Dykes, High Spots of Western Illustrating 101.

New York, Vantage Press, Inc., 1958. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book and dust jacket are near fine. First edition, so stated. Review slip from publisher laid loose.

Index Print, 1901. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Cloth, wear to the covers, a very good copy. First edition. Guns 2320: "Scarce." "George Sontag tells about his activities as a member of the Evans-Sontag gang, his life in prison, and his reason for turning against Evans. Some of his statements do not agree with other published material about his gang of train robbers.

Printed for the author by George Henry Printing Co., 1930. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Cloth, head and foot of spine tender, some scuffing to the tips, otherwise the rest of the cover clean. Former owner's bookplate on front pastedown. Hinges intact, text clean throughout. Overall a solid, very good plus copy. First edition. Guns 2125: ¿This rare little book gives some heretofore unpublished facts about the Daltons, Bill Doolin, the Jennings gang, the Cook gang, Cherokee Bill, and other Oklahoma outlaws.¿ Loring Campbell. Howes S871: ¿aa¿ scarcity rating. Dykes, Rare Western Outlaw Books pp. 19-21.

Norman, Oklahoma. University of Oklahoma Press., 1969. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book and jacket near fine. First edition.

Doubleday & Company Inc, 1960. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Some chipping to jacket, book very good plus. First edition.

William Morrow, 1950. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Cloth, dust jacket torn and chipped, book very good or better. First edition. Guns 1690: "Has references to gunmen and their favorite weapon." Riling 2732.

C. F. Braun & Co., 1964. Hardcover. Near Fine. Leather spine and marbled boards, a near fine copy. Reprint edition. Merrill's Aristocrats. Howes R529. Herd 1970. Yost & Renner 6. A beautiful reproduction, privately printed for distribution to friends only.

Crane & Co., 1912. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Cloth, very good copy. First edition. Adams One-Fifty 45. Guns 570: "Scarce." "This book is one of the first in which the author tried to publish a correct account of the Hickok-McCanles trouble and to show 'the wide variance between the truth and fictions as told by Emerson Hough' (Story of the Outlaw, also available in this catalog, item H87)." He was also the first to claim that Wild Bill shot McCanles from behind a curtain and ambushed Woods and Gordon from an unseen shelter." Graff 1025. Howes D150 "aa".

New York, Macmillan Co., 1932. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Very good copy in a very good dust jacket. First edition. Guns 1351: "Contains considerable material on Arizona outlaws. The author misnames John Heath as Frank Heith. He seems to have a poor opinion of the Earps, and of the OK Corral fight he says that though the Earps were officers of the law they 'deliberately brought on the quarrel for the purpose of getting rid of the Clantons and McLowerys [sic].' He says that Wyatt Earp 'was both a cold-blooded killer and a very suave and crafty dissimulator' and that Wyatt had told the author in detail 'how he had killed Curly Bill and John Ringo, but Breakenridge had told conclusively that Earp did not kill either of these men'

Macmillan Co., 1932. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Very good copy, no dust jacket. First edition. Guns 1351: "Contains considerable material on Arizona outlaws. The author misnames John Heath as Frank Heith. He seems to have a poor opinion of the Earps, and of the OK Corral fight he says that though the Earps were officers of the law they 'deliberately brought on the quarrel for the purpose of getting rid of the Clantons and McLowerys [sic].' He says that Wyatt Earp 'was both a cold-blooded killer and a very suave and crafty dissimulator' and that Wyatt had told the author in detail 'how he had killed Curly Bill and John Ringo, but Breakenridge had told conclusively that Earp did not kill either of these men'

The National Rifle Association of America, 1948. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Two volumes, complete, dust jackets slightly chipped, books fine. First volume is second corrected printing; second volume is a first edition. Riling 2573: "One of the most complete and useful books on the revolver and pistol using metallic cartridges, foreign and American." First edition. Riling 2665.

Stackpole Co., 1960. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Dust jacket chipped, book very good or better. First edition. Study of the "Hawken" and "Mountain Rifle" prominent during the fur trading period.

4th and best edition. No dust jacket as issued.

G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1961. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Some creasing to the dust jacket edges, book fine. First edition.

Cloth, 2 volumes, complete, near fine set.
First edition thus.

Texas A&M, 1986. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Fine copy in dust jacket. First edition. Illustrations by Charles Shaw.