Why be a Mud Turtle? by Stewart Edward White - 1928

BOSTON: LITTLE BROWN, 1920. First American Edition 1st Printing. Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket. Anton Otto Fischer. First Printing. From the M. B. Goldstone and Adrian Goldstone collection--with M. .B. Goldstone signature and notes in pencil to the front free endpaper. Signed by Bower---A near fine copy with only the lightest of age toning. Blue green cloth with yellow and darker blue decorations and lettering. 298 pp. 3 pp. adv at rear. A very collectable copy from famed Western writer B. M. Bower. She was a prolific author and her books were illustrated by many of the most famous illustrators of the day inlcluding Wyeth and Dixon. This title was illustrated by Anton Otto Fischer. Very collectable for Bower and Illustrators.

NEW YORK: Appleton, 1922. First American Edition 1st Printing. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. First Printing. A hi-spot of American literature. A handsome copy with the rare dustjacket. From the M. B. Goldstone collection of early Western Fiction. This copy is in Very Good condition with a very good unclipped ($2.00) dustjacket. There is overall moderate age toning with some minor wear to the extremities, rubbing to the cloth boards and some soiling to the page ends--a well read copy--but also tight and square with no compromise to the binding or spine. The rare dustjacket is bright and colorful, missing some of the paper at the heel of the spine--and with light chipping at the head of the spine and a couple of closed end tears. The verso of the dustjacket has a Paramount Picture advertisement of the movie starring J. Warren Kerrigan and Lois Wilson--. This copy is protected in a red cloth chemise (covering the dustjacket) that is near fine. The entire book and chemise fits nicely into a custom… Read More

Doubleday & Company, Inc., NY, 1958; First Edition; Signed; 8vo, 448 pages. Historical novel of the daredevil adventures of early Texas explorer Louis Juchereau St. Denis, by author/screenwiter Paul Wellman, who was a staff writer at Warner Bros. from 1936-1944, and MGM from 1944-1946. Numerous Wellman Westerns were adapted to the screen, including his 1952 novel "The Comancheros," which was made into the popular movie of the same name starring John Wayne. Very Good Plus, exceptionally clean, crisp and bright, in a Very Good dust jacket that has a single small chip at the lower left shoulder of the spine panel. Signed on the half-title page by the author.

Freddy The Cowboy. Hardcover. By Walter R. Brooks, Stated First Edition 1950, Alfred A. Knopf. ILLUSTRATED BY KURT WIESE. EX-LIB. Library bound. White titling on spine. Multi-hued, Raspberry, orange and lavender graphic cloth cover treatment. Square corners. Good Condition /No dust jacket is included. A clean, solid copy.

New York: The Outing Publishing Company, 1907. Hardcover, red cloth boards, b/w stamped pictorial cover. Good/No Jacket. Illustrated by N. C. Wyeth and F. E. Schoonover. Being a record of certain happenings that occurred in the otherwise peaceful lives of Hopalong Cassidy and his companions on the range. 382 pages, illustrated plates by Wyeth, cover & frontispiece adapted from the Schoonover painting for the 1905 story The Fight at Buckskin. This book is fictional, rough-talking cowboy hero Hopalong Cassidy's first appearance; the character is known for his distinctive walk due to a gunshot wound. Spine gilt darkened, wear to ends and corners, previous owner's name inked on front endpaper, one-inch stain on the left side of front cover.

Albuquerque and Santa Fe,NM; (1982): The New Book league/the Lightning Tree. Limited Edition. Octavo. Publisher's copy, limited to 500 copies signed by the authors and and six others who helped in the production of the book, 222pp. with a foreword by Lawrence Clark Powell and inscribed by him at the end of his foreword, specially bound in brown cloth backed in beige cloth, spine lettering gilt, just a bit of finger soiling to spine otherwise near fine in very good slipcase with rubbing to corners.

Doubleday & Company, Inc., NY, 1958; First Edition; Signed; 8vo, 448 pages. Historical novel of the daredevil adventures of early Texas explorer Louis Juchereau St. Denis, by author/screenwiter Paul Wellman, who was a staff writer at Warner Bros. from 1936-1944, and MGM from 1944-1946. Numerous Wellman Westerns were adapted to the screen, including his 1952 novel "The Comancheros," which was made into the popular movie of the same name starring John Wayne. Very Good Plus, exceptionally clean, crisp and bright, in a Very Good dust jacket that has a single small chip at the lower left shoulder of the spine panel. Signed on the half-title page by the author.

Freddy The Cowboy. Hardcover. By Walter R. Brooks, Stated First Edition 1950, Alfred A. Knopf. ILLUSTRATED BY KURT WIESE. EX-LIB. Library bound. White titling on spine. Multi-hued, Raspberry, orange and lavender graphic cloth cover treatment. Square corners. Good Condition /No dust jacket is included. A clean, solid copy.

Grosset & Dunlap Publishers, New York, New York, U.S.A., published by arrangement with Harper & Brothers 1912. First Edition. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Douglas Duer, illustrator. 335 pp. plus 4 pages of advertisements at back. Text is clean and unmarked but tanned, typical of the paper used in 1912. Light foxing on front free endpapers and title page. Previous owner's attribution stamped on front pastedown. A Western novel about a Mormon woman defending her ranch and the period conflicts between Mormons and Gentiles near the the southern Utah border as written by a classic American writer.

Eckville AB, Spur of the Moment, 2002, oblong paperback (8.5" x 11"), 80 pp, One of 100 Signed, Numbered, Limited Edition copies in original slipcase, Fine condition, slight corner touches, in Very Near Fine brown, textured slipcase with gold spur decoration and gold spine lettering. Straight, tight and clean with no wear or markings. Slipcase untouched except for slightest of wear to corners. A compilation of hilarious, detailed, and vividly colorful cartoons of country life from the world renowned western artist and musician. Text by Phil Callaway, Forward by Boots Reynolds. ISBN 9780969530053