Westerns from The Real Book Shop

1938 reprint of 1937 1st H&S Yellow Jacket edition. Very rare artwork pictorial dust jacket over red blindstamped cloth boards. 316pp. Popular Western adventure by the creator of Dr. Kildare. CONDITION: DJ - very worn and chipped on edges but rare artwork is bright. In poly cover. Boards - waterstained. Edges - heavily foxed. Text block relatively clean. No inscriptions.… Read more about this item

2nd reprint of UK H&S edition. Pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth boards. 320pp. CONDITION: DJ - very worn, grubby and chipped, now in poly cover, not price clipped, stuck to boards at spine (historical water damage). Boards showing extensive marking due to historical water damage. Internally - occasional light staining. Binding still intact.

4th reprint of 1st UK edition. Yellow pictorial dust jacket over red blind stamped cloth boards. 320pp. CONDITION: DJ - moderate wear, not price clipped, in poly cover. Boards/spine - VG. Internally - no inscriptions, no foxing, no marks, pages clean, binding very good.

1st edition thus (1st edition in this format by H & S, 1941). Pictorial dust jacket over red blind stamped cloth boards. 288pp. Includes b/w photo stills from subsequent Hollywood film of the same name. Tells the story of the building of the first trans-continental telegraph line, in the face of incredible hardships and dangers. CONDITION: DJ - good, light… Read more about this item

6th UK reprint. Yellow pictorial dust jacket over orange blind stamped cloth boards. 319pp. Western action from the King of Westerns. CONDITION: DJ - worn and chipped, inch closed tear to front, in poly cover, not price clipped. Boards/spine - VG. Internally - age tanning, no inscriptions, binding good.

3rd reprint of 1st UK edition. "A mighty tale of the pioneers". Pictorial 'Yellow' dust jacket over red blind stamped cloth boards. 312pp. CONDITION: DJ - very worn, chipped at edges, bottom spine portion of DJ missing, in poly cover. Boards/spine - bumping to top edge of front board and spine extremities. Internal - gift inscription on ffep. Edges grubby.… Read more about this item

1st UK edition, 2nd impression. "The King of Western writers tells the story of Thad Eburne, forest ranger in the Great Buckskin Forest". Pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth boards. 256pp. CONDITION: DJ worn and chipped, price clipped, in protective poly cover. Boards - small white marks on front top, otherwise VG. Internally - gift inscription on front pastedown, top… Read more about this item

"Adam Larey gazed with hard and wondering eyes down the silent current of the red river upon which he meant to drift away into the desert........." Also made into a Paramount Pictures movie. Pictorial dust jacket (Yellow Jacket) over blind stamped red cloth boards. 362pp. Good: DJ has moderate wear, now in protective poly cover, not price clipped. Boards/spine - light… Read more about this item

Very scarce edition of this popular western. Stylized artwork to DJ. Pictorial Yellow Jacket DJ over red blind-stamped red cloth boards. 317pp. "Fast-shooting, big-hearted Arizona Ames carved himself a legend as he rode the untamed West seeking a place to call home. When a friend gets caught in a deadly love triangle, Arizona doesn't hesitate to take matters into his… Read more about this item

First UK edition, 2nd printing. Pictorial 'Yellow' dust jacket over blind-embossed red cloth boards. 286pp. The story of Holly Ripple, who leaves a sheltered boarding school to take over the government of a cattle empire, at a time when her domain is threatened by organized rustler outfits. CONDITION: DJ - VERY POOR. lots of wear and open tears, chips and… Read more about this item

Pictorial dust jacket over red blind-embossed cloth boards. 312pp. Another action-filled story from the King of Westerns. CONDITION: DJ - worn, chipped on edges, in poly cover. Gift inscription on ffep. Pre-title page torn at gutter. Text block very clean.

First UK edition, first printing 1948. In pictorial dust jacket over pale blue boards. 245pp + ads. "a superb tale of the West vivid with love, hate, violence, the clashes of men fighting for gold and salmon, and behind it all an unequalled feeling for nature in the rough" (from DJ flap). CONDITION: DJ - rubbed and chipped on edges,… Read more about this item

First H & S edition, 2nd printing. Pictorial dust jacket over pale blue cloth boards. 256pp. "After Lance Sidway comes to beautiful Madge Stewart's defense and ends up on the wrong side of the law, he escapes to Arizona and finds work on her father's ranch. Madge is kidnapped by a gang of cattle rustlers, and Sidway must intervene once… Read more about this item

Undated. c. 1949. Pictorial dust jacket over green cloth boards. 378pp. Popular Western, originally published by Harper and Brothers in 1914 and also made into Hollywood Movies on a number of occasions. "A thrilling romance of the Southwest, the wide spaces, the dangers of border life. The theme is the making of a strong man by a woman's trust in… Read more about this item

1st edition, 1st reprint. With dust jacket. Blue cloth boards. 319pp. 8vo. "This book is exactly the kind of story that has made Zane Grey one of the world's best selling authors: a novel set in the Southwestern Mountains he knows and describes so well, with cowboys, rangers, rustlers, a hero with a mysterious past, and old frontiersman, a tenderfoot… Read more about this item

Rare copy of this edition with pictorial dust jacket. Zane Grey's first novel. Based on a true story. Betty Zane was one of the great heroines of the American Revolution. A pioneer who moved west at the end of the 18th century. There the Zanes and others carved out the little settlement of Fort Henry, a last outpost on the… Read more about this item