First Edition. Western Adventure novel. Novel intended for young adults. Very Good with rear hinge cracked in Very Good dustjacket with light chipping to spine ends, shallow chipping to front edges and rear top edge. Item #16547
First Macaulay Edition. Humorous western novel of a Wyoming cow-puncher who has a weakness for women. Very Good, short tear at lower edge of index page, in Very Good dustjacket, corner of front flap torn away (price-clipped?), some shallow edge chips. Item #34863
Second Edition" slug at half-title, with First Edition plates. Gayle Hoskins cover and dustjacket art and illustrations. Western adventure and mystery novel with a female protagonist who is depicted at frontis holding a gun, with the caption "the first cartridge had jammed and every other chamber was filled". Includes chapter titles: Crowheart's First Murder Mystery and The Dago Duke and Dan. Not found in Hubin (2001 edition). Near Fine bright copy in Very Good dustjacket but for some dampstaining to flap edges and triangular chip less than an inch deep at its peak at lower spine end. Item #9528
First Edition, Advance Reading Copy with review slip laid in. Ronald Wing dustjacket art. A grim western novel of murder, greed, and gold. Near Fine in Very Good plus dustjacket. Item #7084
First Edition. Parkhur dustjacket art. Arizona set western adventure novel in which a Detective Agency steps in where the law fails. "As detective and as the new chief of the vigilantes, Jerry tracks his enemies through further murders, thefts, and gun scrimmages, escapes lynching, is ambushed in a saloon, searches out clues, discovers the secrets of a bullet with a microscope..." A scarce title. Very Good but for chip to cloth at upper rear spine edge, in Very Good price-clipped dustjacket, couple small chips at spine ends. Item #30688
First Edition. "A thrilling, red-blooded tale of a picturesque character against the background of hell-roaring towns where men drank, quarreled, killed and went about their business. Gordon Lillie, as Pawnee Bill, the hero of countless men and boys of this and past generations, stood in the doorway of the restaurant in Caldwell one Saturday afternoon. Before him were cattle thieves, horse thieves, Indians, desperadoes, women with hard eyes and painted cheeks. He stood on the threshold of a career that was to be one of the most colorful and stirring in the annals of the glamorous Southwest." A very uncommon title to be found in dustjacket. Near Fine but for mild cocking, in Very Good dustjacket, some wear at front spine edge, shallow chipping at lower spine end. Item #22008
First Edition. Original yellow cloth, lacking jacket. This copy nicely inscribed and signed at front endpaper by author to 'Mom and Dad Brown'. His parents? Uncertain. An uncommon title. Good, cloth soiled, cocking. Item #34926
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First Danish Edition. A European translation of this western novel with great inscription by the author at front endpaper: "For Christopher Allan MacDonald / This Ducth translation / of "Comanche Scalp" / which I dedicated to / you, (in the American edition.) / affectionately, / Allan / (William Colt MacDonald) / 1/15/57 / Hi, Matador!". Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket. Item #20510
First Edition. Western adventure novel of a football star from the East who falls in love with the daughter of his family's arch enemy. Very Good, modest cocking, stamped 'Harpers' at top and lower page edge, in Very Good dustjacket, dime sized chip at top spine end and front panel. Item #32872
First Edition. Signed by Mann at title page and with author’s Field & Stream business card and address stamp at front free endpaper. Scarce. Story of adventure, romance, and a young man’s search for his father. Near Fine but for marker to front free endpaper and lower edge of page block, in a Very Good plus dustjacket, front panel edges and spine ends with shallow chips and closed tears, spine faded. Item #19312
First Edition. J. Clinton Shepherd dustjacket art. Fiction involving Billy the Kid, in which his legendary death is rewritten as an escape. Near Fine in Very Good plus dustjacket but for shallow chipping, several closed tears with accompanying creases. Item #19311
First Edition. Luros dustjacket art. Western of a man who became a successful cowboy and who risked it all to tame a trail-end boom town. Very Good but for foxing to endpapers and a typed instruction sheet and list of names for a lending circle pasted to front free end paper, in a Very Good dustjacket with modest soiling to rear panel and light edge wear, mostly to spine ends and flap corners. Item #18880
First Edition. Western adventure novel of a father and son crime duo. Very Good, webbing showing at rear inner hinge, in Good only dustjacket, darkened at spine, scotch tape mends to verso of spine, chipped at spine ends and flap corners, closed tears at edges. Item #25329
First Edition. Ruth King dustjacket art and illustrations. Western set mystery not listed in Hubin involving the troubles that came to the people of Home Valley after the death of their leader, including superstition, rich rivals, and disloyal ranchers, and the attempts to salvage a new leadership. Very Good with light fading to edges in a Very Good dustjacket with shallow edge chipping and short closed tears and two barely noticeable four-inch closed tears and connective crease to front panel. Item #18633
First Edition. Exciting story of a lawyer who returned to Mesa Junction to visit a dying friend, only to find himself amidst a range war. Good plus, with covers rather damp-stained and ownership markings to front free endpaper, in a Good dustjacket with shallow chipping to top spine end, some minor bleeding of front covers to verso of jacket. Item #18713
First Edition. "An uproariously funny story of a tiny mining settlement in the West, which is shaken to the very roots by the sudden possession of a baby, found on the plains by one of its residents. The town is as disreputable a spot as the gold fever was ever responsible for, and the coming of that baby causes the upheaval of every rooted tradition of the place. Its christening, the problems of its toys and its illness, supersede in the minds of the miners all thought of earthly treasure." Basis for the 1920 black and white silent Universal Film production directed by Jacques Jaccard and starring Harry Carey and Carol Holloway. Almost Near Fine, some rubbing at lower spine end, some mild signs of wear, publisher's name flecked at spine, in incredibly scarce original publisher's printed dustjacket, Near Fine. Item #23108
First Edition. M. Hutchinson dustjacket art. "Real Indian warfare blazes up during the search for the 'Red Mesa' mine, when a scoundrel named Vasquez gets wind of it and stirs up the Apaches against the white men and the Indian tribe with whom they have made friends". Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, dime sized chip at lower spine end, few shallow edge chips and wear. Item #25585
First Edition stated. Remington Schuyler dustjacket art. Western adventure novel by the creator of Hopalong Cassidy. "The law of the six shooter ran the town and the gold crazed men gambled madly and robbed brazenly". Very Good or Near Fine, lower corners lightly bumped, in Good only dustjacket, lacking top inch and half of spine, shallow edge chips and wear, some splitting at rear flap edge mended at rear with archival tape, some mending at lower spine end. Item #29560
Early Reprint Edition. Maynard Dixon dustjacket art. An uncommon early reprint edition with ownership date of March 1913 at front free endpaper of this western literary classic. Illustrated with three plates by Dixon, whereas the title page calls for four, however this being a reprint edition one plate was likely left out. Near Fine in nearly Very Good dustjacket with chipping at spine ends, scotch tape to exterior of tears at spine edges, spine foxed. Item #20429
Presumed Later Printing, with 1908 copyright date. Western adventure novel featuring a found bag of gold. The Apache Kid is a congenial train robber, bank robber, and road agent, But he’s never been convicted of any crimes and socializes freely with any law-abiding citizens who care to have his acquaintance. The novel is set in what we take to be British Columbia; the year is 1900. An uncommon title. Very Good, possibly lacking a half-title page (pagination begins with endpaper followed by title page) in Very Good dustjacket, shallow loss at spine ends and few edges. Item #34360
First Edition. Western novel of the desperate attempts of Don Beltran to wrest a treasure and an old Indian idol from a peaceful scientist who has journeyed to Hermosa to excavate the Casa Perdita ruins". Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket chipped at spine ends and flap corners. Item #23890
Presumed First Edition, copyright date of 1926. des Rosiers dustjacket art. Western novel concerning cowboys and rustlers. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, fairly shallow chipping at spine ends and flap corners, few short tears and wear. Item #17540
First Edition. L. C. dustjacket art. Western novel concerning the opening of the Cherokee Strip to settlement. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, very shallow chipping to top spine end, flap edges with narrow chips, nickel sized chip at top rear panel. Item #13420
First Edition. Fictionalized biography of Sam Houston by one of the earliest Native American novelists. Near Fine bright copy in Very Good plus dustjacket, few nicks, small v-shaped closed abrasion to rear panel. Item #5685
First Edition. "high romance and swift action in a country rich with wild beauty. Dixie's story - told against the background of America's last frontier, the land of the great cattlemen who still hold fast to a rigid code of right and wrong". Set primarily in Texas, but Dixie moves to California in the end. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, top spine end chipped, accordion abrasion at mid rear panel. Item #30709
