Hands Up!
by Niven, Frederick
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good+ with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Plymouth, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
London: Martin Secker. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1913. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Cocked, tone, edgewear, otherwise light wear. Solid hardcover. ; First edition per Allen J Hubin; Crime Fiction IV 1749-2000: A Comprehensive Bibliography; page 1129. "This early cowboy western by Scots-Canadian writer Frederick Niven (1878-1944) is a character study of a frontier outlaw with good bad man credentials. Like other train robbers and road agents of western history, he is absorbed into the cowboy culture of the open range between his crimes. There, even should his identity be known, hes given shelter from the long arm of the law." - Ron Scheer; Buddies In The Saddle. Early western by Chilean-born Scots-Canadian novelist Niven, Canadas favorite hobo writer, featuring runaway Scotsman Will Barclay and train-robber The Apache Kid.; 316, 4 ad pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Mike's Library (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 15585
- Title
- Hands Up!
- Author
- Niven, Frederick
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+ with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- Publisher
- Martin Secker
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1913
- Keywords
- Canadian Literature - 20th Century, Cowboy Lore, Hubin IV p 1129
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Mike's Library
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Plymouth, Pennsylvania
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...