Dead Man's Saddle
Garden City: Doubleday, 1951. Hardcover. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Man stands between two rival cattle outfits. More
Westerns
Hill Smoke
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, (1959). Hardcover. First edition. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with some foxing to the spine. Sheriff stalks his prey disguised as a drifter. More
The Long Ride
New York: Doubleday, 1952. Hardcover. First edition. Fine in near fine, lightly rubbed dustwrapper with some light wear to the ends of the spine and edges of the panels. More
Bred of the Desert: A Horse and a Romance
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1915. Hardcover. First edition. Decorative cloth. Light stain on the foredge else very near fine, lacking the dustwrapper. More
The Prairie Shrine: A Western Story
New York: Chelsea House, (1924). Hardcover. First edition. Fine in very good dustwrapper with several modest chips and tears. Pennsylvania woman leaves to establish her homestead in the west, encounters trouble, but receives staunch support from a gunfighter and a poet, as one does. Jacket art by Frank Schoonover. More
Autograph Letter Signed ("Emerson Hough")
Unbound. One Page. Dated "2-26/ 21" from New York, recipient's name has been struck through. Horizontal fold has split through, fair only. Hough asks his correspondent asking for the return of a pamphlet that he had lent him but now has need of. More
The Covered Wagon
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1922. Hardcover. First edition. Frontispiece and jacket design by W.H.D. Koerner. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Basis for the James Cruze film, considered the screen's first epic western, and a surprisingly realistic depiction of an important phase of America's history. The novel is a *Johnson..... More
The Frontier Omnibus Containing Three Complete Novels: The Way To The West, The Story of the Outlaw, The Way of a Man
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, circa 1930s. Hardcover. First edition. 345pp. Spine cloth torn, very good. More
The Mississippi Bubble: How the Star of Good Fortune Rose and Set and Rose Again, by a Woman's Grace, for one John Law of Lauriston
Indianapolis: Bowen-Merrill, (1902). Hardcover. First edition, mixed state (with *BAL's* second state of p. [453]; and first state p. [456] and p. [457]; second state of the binding). Illustrations by Henry Hutt. Gray cloth decorated in silver. Owner's name dated Sept. 16, 1902 on front fly, light edgewear, near fine..... More
The Mississippi Bubble: How the Star of Good Fortune Rose and Set and Rose Again, by a Woman's Grace, for one John Law of Lauriston
Indianapolis: Bowen-Merrill, (1902). Hardcover. First edition, printing B with page 453 blank, page 456 with *The Stroller* and page 457 with *The Fighting Bishop*. Illustrations by Henry Hutt. Gray-green cloth decorated in silver. Light edgewear, near fine. *BAL 9318.*. More
The Mississippi Bubble: How the Star of Good Fortune Rose and Set and Rose Again, by a Woman's Grace, for one John Law of Lauriston
Indianapolis: Bowen-Merrill, (1902). Hardcover. First edition, first printing, binding A. Olive ribbed cloth decorated in white and gilt. Illustrations by Henry Hutt. Hinges cracked, spine ends and corners worn and bumped, still a very good copy. More
The Mississippi Bubble: How the Star of Good Fortune Rose and Set and Rose Again, by a Woman's Grace, for one John Law of Lauriston
Indianapolis: The Bowen-Merrill Company, (1902). Hardcover. Early reprint (*BAL* printing E with *Francezka* advertised on p.[457]). Octavo. 452, [20]pp. Illustrations by Henry Hutt. Gray-green cloth stamped in silver, with "Emerson Hough" and "Bobbs [not Bowen] Merrill" on the spine. Light general wear, upper hinge starting but holding, very good. *BAL*..... More
The Sagebrusher. A Story of the West
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1919. Hardcover. First edition. Illustrated by J. Henry. Slight foxing to the first few pages, spine darkened, a very good copy lacking the scarce dustwrapper. Signed by the author. Basis for the 1920 silent film with Noah Beery. Laid in but not called for..... More
The Last Stand: A Novel About George Armstrong Custer and the Indians of the Plains
New York: Forge, (1995). Hardcover. First edition. Octavo. 316pp. Fine in fine dustwrapper. More
Desperation Valley
New York: The Macmillan Company, (1964). Hardcover. First edition. Fine in spine-faded else near fine dustwrapper. More
West of Justice
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1954. Hardcover. First edition. Fine in a lightly worn, fine dustwrapper with a couple of tiny tears. Local cowhand earns law degree and becomes a judge. Ranchers think he'll do their bidding, are surprised. More
The Secret of Hidden Valley
New York: Random House, (1956). Hardcover. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper with a short closed tear on the rear panel. A sharp copy of this western title. Author's first novel. More
The Dark Horse
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1939. Hardcover. First edition. Illustrated by the author. Spotting on the boards, small American flag sticker on the front fly, thus only good in price-clipped very good dustwrapper, provided with from a later printing (not by us). Inscribed by the author: "To Thomas Gallagher -..... More
The Hanging Tree
New York: Ballantine, (1957). Hardcover. First edition. Slight sunning to the spine ends, else near fine in very good dustwrapper with shallow loss at the foot, and a few short tears. A collection of stories. The title novella, about a doctor who stops a lynch mob during the Gold Rush..... More
The Hanging Tree and other Stories
New York: Ballantine, (1985). Softcover. Reprint. Mass market paperback. Spine crease, light wear to covers, very good. Western fiction. More
Squatters' Rights: A Western Story
New York: Chelsea House, 1929. Hardcover. First edition. Small bookstore label on rear pastedown, corners worn and bumped, very good lacking the dustwrapper. More
The Best Western Stories of Ryerson Johnson
Athens: Swallow Press/Ohio University Press, (1990). Hardcover. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. More
Arrest Sitting Bull
New York: Scribner, (1977). Hardcover. First edition. Fine in very good plus dustwrapper with a little scraping at the spine ends and a tiny nick at the foot. Signed by the author. Historical novel about the aging Sitting Bull and potential insurrection on the reservation. More
Winding Stair
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, (1979). Hardcover. First edition. Cover art by Stan Zagorski. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Historic novel set in 1890s Arkansas. More