The Magic Wagon by Landsdale, Joe R

Doubleday, 1986-10. Hardcover. Good.

Doubleday Books, 1986. Hardcover. Good. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Doubleday, 1986-10-01. First Edition. HARDCOVER. Very Good/Very Good. 8x5x0. We're happy to combine shipping to save you some money. We're also always buying collectible book collections. Contact us for details. We're happy to provide pictures of any and all books for you, please just ask! American first edition, first printing. Stated first edition on copyright page. Jacket is in Very Good + condition. Very minor wear to spine ends and edges of jacket. Jacket is neatly price clipped. Covers are clean and bright. Edges are sharp. No tears or creases. The book itself is in Near Fine condition. The binding is straight and tight. No remainder mark.

Doubleday. Used; Good. Doubleday & Company, Garden City, NY, 1986. Hardcover. *Signed* First edition, first printing. EX-LIBRARY wih usual stamps, markings and pocket. Book is in good condition. Dust Jacket, Is in very good condition. Flat signed by Joe R. Lansdale.This entertaining novel is set in turn-of-the-20th-century eastern Texas, where crooked traveling medicine shows and aging gunslingers define the closing frontier. Narrator Buster Fogg's family is wiped out by a twister in an early sequence described with surreal verve. Buster hitches on with Billy Bob Daniels, a patent-medicine pusher and trick shooter who claims to be the illegitimate son of Wild Bill Hickock, joining an entourage consisting of a kindly ex-slave named Albert, and Rot Toe, the wrestling ape. Adventures on the road which include swiping the mummified remains of Billy Bob's "Pa" and swindling settlers with their concoction of watered-down whiskey stoke personal tensions that only aggravate troubles… Read More

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 182 pages. A Double D western. Lansdale's first hardcover book and something of a cult classic. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. A terrific copy, inscribed to Lansdale's friend and fellow Texas writer, Neal Barrett Jr. "For Neal, a real writer, from Joe, the toy writer. Jose R. Lansdale." With a review slip laid in and a custom green slipcase for protection. This copy came from the collection of the late Tom Garner, to whom Barrett's Interstate Dreams is dedicated. Garner was a friend of both authors.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1986. First edition, first printing . Hardcover. Inscribed by Lansdale on the title page, "For Steve - This copy of his all time favorite book - just about. Thanks for having me at your store & for supporting my work! Joe R. Lansdale. 8/1/94." Previous owner's initials written on the first page of chapter 1 and the page preceding. Fine in fine and bright dust jacket.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: DOUBLEDAY, 1986. Book. Very Good +. Hardcover. Signed by the author on the title page.. First Edition/First Printing. A square solid tight clean un-read copy. This copy has two light corner bumps, light foxing to the top edge of the text block. The 12.95 jacket has some light soil, stress lines at the folds, minor edgewear. A very nice copy of Joe's first hardback issued novel. This copy seem's to be Joe's personal copy way back when he sbmitted it for Spur Award consideration. With this copy is an entry form for the 1986 Spur Awards, filled out and signed by Lansdale with a legible signature. The book is also signed by him. If you were looking for something reallyyyyyyyy special for your Lansdale collection here it is. THIS COPY IS IN MY POSSESSION AND NORMALLY SHIPS NEXT DAY..