Search Results: Titles starting with V from Darwin Labordo Books

D. Appleton-Century, 1941. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Better than very good copy in dj. First edition. Guns 590: "Another extensive work by this author touching upon, among many other subjects, vigilantes and the Johnson County War." Dobie p. 50.

Montana State University, 1957. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Fine copy in dust jacket. Later edition. An excellent modern republication of the classic. Adams One-Fifty 94. Guns 1280: "One of the standard works on the Montana vigilantes and the Plummer gang of road agents." Montana One Hundred 16. Dobie p. 141: "Full treatment of lawlessness in the Northwest." Graff 2390. Howes L78.

State Publishing. Hardcover. Fine. Green cloth, fine copy. Fourth edition.

Philadelphia, Penn Publishing, 1929. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine. Near fine copy, special binding with gilt top edge. First limited edition. copy 175 of 250, signed by author. Adams One-Fifty 11: About a third of this book appeared in the Saturday Evening Post in short articles before publication in book form. Though valued by collectors of outlaw material, there is little that is new concerning the Montana vigilantes. Guns 214.

Penn Publishing, 1929. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Fine copy in dust wrapper. First trade edition. Adams One-Fifty 11: "About a third of this book appeared in the Saturday Evening Post in short articles before publication in book form. Though valued by collectors of outlaw material, there is little that is new concerning the Montana vigilantes." Guns 214.

State Publishing. Hardcover. Fine. Red cloth, fine copy. Fourth edition. Adams One-Fifty 48. Guns 596: "Perhaps no book excells Dimsdale's in presenting the picture of the lawless conditions that characterized the mining camps of the Rocky Mountain country. The author was editor of the Virginia City Montana Post and a participant in the extraordinary campaign against lawlessness." Howes D345. Graff 1086. Montana One Hundred 7.

Albuquerque, New Mexico, University of New Mexico, 1957. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Cloth, dust jacket, both in near fine condition. First edition. Adams One-Fifty 88. Guns 1216: One of the best histories of Lincoln County and its troubles, as well as of the life of Billy the Kid. It has many citations to newspapers and court records, and is well annotated. It is most trustworthy. Herd 1264. Six Score 64: A well written and trustworthy account of the Lincoln County War. The author, a New Mexico attorney, covers the development of tensions and the outbreaks of violence admirably. Dobie/Dykes 79: This is the best book ever written about a range war. Attorney and historian rolled into one, Keleher searched out the evidence and his brief is a range country masterpiece.

Encampment, Wyoming, Affiliated Writers of America., 1994. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Near fine copy in near fine dust jacket. First edition.

New York, The Macmillan Co., 1911. Hardcover. Very Good. Cloth, front and rear hinges broken but attached, still very good. A first printing of the New Edition with illustrations by Russell and Remington. Six Score 116: Although a novel, this book probably created more impressions of what a cowboy was like - even among cowboys - than any other work, fact or fiction. Its popularity is attested to by sales of over two million copies. Whether totally accurate or not, it is absorbing reading. Merrills Aristocrats. Dobie p. 124: Wister was an outsider looking in. His hero, The Virginian, is a cowboy without cows - like the cowboys of Eugene Manlove Rhodes; but this hero does not even smell of cows, whereas Rhodess men do. Nevertheless, the novel authentically realizes the code of the range, and it makes such absorbing reading. Dobie/Dykes 44. Graff 4725.

University of Pennsylvania Press, 1949. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine. Cloth, near fine. First edition.