As new except for slight age tanning of pages and light rubbing to spine ends. "Hatred smoldered in Indi Basin. Ex Marshall Bruce Martell rode into the Basin on private business of his own , and crashed into the middle of a range war." NOT KEPT AT STORE- order a day ahead of time for in- store pickup View More...
UGLY READING COPY of 1909 DIME NOVEL. Serious chipping of cover and page edges. Creased spine. Age soiled and tanned. But, nothing interferes with it's readability. DIME NOVELS - Printed on the cheapest of paper, with lurid cover illustrations, dime novels (which found a name in their ten cent price tag)...were considered ephemeral, to be read, often in secret, passed on to friends, or discarded. Dime novels... targeted a youthful working class audience with their thrilling, stereotyped tales of Wild West adventures, master criminals, detective stories, historical romances, and working girl... View More...
Cover worn and detached (glue has dried out), ripped along front hinge, with chips at top and bottom of spine. Text block is solid and square with clean, unmarked text but lightly age tanned pages. 184 pages. DIME NOVELS - Printed on the cheapest of paper, with lurid cover illustrations, dime novels (which found a name in their ten cent price tag)...were considered ephemeral, to be read, often in secret, passed on to friends, or discarded. Dime novels... targeted a youthful working class audience with their thrilling, stereotyped tales of Wild West adventures, master criminals, detective sto... View More...
UGLY READING COPY of 1915 DIME NOVEL. Serious chipping of cover and page edges, some repaired with old clear tape. Creased spine. Age soiled and tanned. But, nothing interferes with it's readability. "Bandit Series Stories of the Most Noted Bandits of the Past and Present Day" Softcover. 172 pages; . DIME NOVELS - Printed on the cheapest of paper, with lurid cover illustrations, dime novels (which found a name in their ten cent price tag)...were considered ephemeral, to be read, often in secret, passed on to friends, or discarded. Dime novels... targeted a youthful working class audience wit... View More...
Getting there is half the battle in this western in Ralph Compton's USA Today bestselling series. When Deputy Marshal Logan Kane is transporting six cold-blooded convicts across hard country, he has to be prepared for anything. Even with the half dozen hard cases caged in his prison wagon, Kane needs to watch his back and keep his Colt close at hand. There are rustlers, lynch mobs, and three brothers from a New Orleans gang to contend with--not to mention the convicts' cronies, looking to bust them loose. On the lookout for danger in his every waking moment and haunted in his sleep by demons ... View More...
In a tweed coat and pith helmet, Hannibal Jones stands out from the hardscrabble crowd on the Nevada frontier. But the legendary mining geologist fears no man, dead or alive - and that includes the ghost believed to haunt the long-closed Alice Mine. View More...
As new - gift quality! 13 stories composed between 1904 and 1990. Dorothy Johnson's classic "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance", explores how a lie affects the lives and futures of three people. Luke Short's story of youthful courage ("Top Hand") demonstrates that age doesn't matter if a man is in the right. John M. Cunningham's "The Tin Star," (filmed as High Noon), offers a study of how a quiet man of courage goes about his business in the few minutes of life left to him. Frank O'Rourke's "The Last Shot "sets up a classic confrontation and then flip-flops the story line. Annotated by Work... View More...
Reading copy. Tight, yellowed pages, faded cover, faint foxing on some pages, spots on cover and spine, faint tilt. Ex-library, stamps with library name and glue remainder marks inside both covers, remainder of bookplate and jacket flaps and number stamp on first free page. Softened spine ends and 2 corners worn through to boards. A Western by an author who rode for the Pony Express, drove a stage coach, was a cowpuncher, mined for gold, wrote many books and magazine stories and poetry. 320 pages, 7-1/2x5-1/8" (19x13cm). NOT KEPT AT STORE- order a day ahead of time for in- store pickup View More...
