THE ADVENTURES OF HAWKE TRAVIS Episodes in the Life of a Gunman by Colter, Eli - 1931

Macmillan, NY/London, 1931, 1931. Hardcover. Fair/Unknown. 12 mo., bright orange pictorial boards. First edition. Wear to cornershinges broken, ink mark on back cover, else good reading copy. Hawke Travis "never double-crossed a friend, a partner, or even a sucker who trusted him, and to abuse a woman or a child was to invite his swift and devastating rage". 220 pages.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1931 Orange cloth with dramatic black ink cover illustration--part silhouette--of cowboy on horseback. Classic vintage western, with saloons, bunkhouses, sagebrush, and robberies. Light rubbing to cover extremities. Light-to-moderate cover soil, including a 1/2" x 1/4" light stain to front board and dime-sized smudge and adjoining area of fade at upper rear board alongside spine. Spine slightly sunned. Interior clean, tight, and unworn.

Macmillan, 1931. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. 1st Edition. In bright orange cloth. .

New York: Macmillan, 1931. First printing. Orange cloth with black illustration and lettering. Very slightly faded spine, with light wear to the spine ends. Small spots to the boards. Otherwise a fine, unmarked copy in a tight binding.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Macmillan, 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Good. Vintage Pre-War Hardcover with DJ, First edition 1931 Macmillan 220 pages. Very Good+, in a Good DJ. Just a touch of shelf/edge wear to bright orange cloth boards with black titles and cover illustration - corners sharp. Moderate shelf/edge wear and one large chip at spine (title missing) of original clipped DJ - now in mylar. No previous owner markings - all pages are clean and unmarked with deckled edges. From the DJ flap: . "Hawke was a thoroughly bad hombre; he killed, staged hold-ups, rustled horses, and ran crooked gambling joints. But he never double-crossed a friend, a partner, or even a 'sucker' who trusted him, and to abuse a woman or a child was to invite his swift and devastating rage." May Eliza Frost went by the name Eli Colter, in print and in her private life. She adopted that name in the early 1920s and used it as her byline in hundreds of stories, serials, and novels, mostly Westerns, but also… Read More

The Macmillan Company, 1931. Hardcover. Good. . First ed. Jacket has chipping along edges, spine tanned. Pages clean, binding sturdy. General shelf/age wear.

New York: The Macmillan Company. Near Fine in Very Good dj. 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. [very minor shelfwear, a remarkably clean and solid copy, small vintage price sticker (from The White House, San Francisco department store) on rear pastedown; jacket has a large chunk missing at upper corner of rear panel (no loss of any text), a couple of tiny closed tears, very slight paper loss at a couple of corners]. "Hawke was a thoroughly bad hombre; he killed, staged hold-ups, rustled horses, and ran crooked gambling joints. But he never double-crossed a friend, a partner, or even a 'sucker' who trusted him, and to abuse a woman or a child was to invite his swift and devastating rage." A prolific pulp writer with hundreds of published stories to her credit, the author worked mostly in the Western genre, but also contributed to "Weird Stories" and wrote a handful of mystery/detective novels in the 1940s and 1950s. .