Search Results: Authors starting with R from Darwin Labordo Books

Norman, Oklahoma. University of Oklahoma Press.. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Book and scarce dust jacket are very good. First edition. An oft-quoted bibliography although Dobie did not think much of it calling it shiftless, hit-and-miss, ignorance revealing (p. 24). Nevertheless, the work is still helpful in verifying various bibliographic qualities and now very scarce. Not the Martino reprint.

Both dust jacket and book are near fine. First edition.

Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1929. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. The scarce dust jacket is tape repaired and has some chipping, good only. The book is very good plus. First edition. Guns 1784: "One of the author's earlier nonfiction books, and one in which he covers the subject fairly thoroughly. Like most books about outlaws, it contains some mistakes." Dobie p. 141: "A rogue's gallery." Rader 2753.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1940. F . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Book near fine, jacket very good. First edition. Guns 1786: ¿Scarce.¿ ¿In this book Mr. Raine debunks the fable about the Wild Bill Hickok-McCanles ¿fight.¿ The author has a very poor opinion of Hickok.¿ Dobie p. 141.

Cloth, a very good minus copy. Significant foxing to the top edge of the book. Spine cocked. Signed by the author. First edition. Guns 1790: "It contains information on the Daltons, Dick Yeager, Ben Cravens, an other Oklahoma outlaws, as well as an account of the killing of Ed Short and Charlie Bryant." Herd 1854. Loring Campbell. Howes R18: "aa" scarcity rating.

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1934. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Cloth, very good in a very good, scarce dust jacket. First edition. Dobie Dykes 6. Arizona Fifty 37. Dobie p. 62. Loring Campbell. Herd 1856.

Random House, 1941. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Very good copy in dust jacket. First edition. Adams One-Fifty 119. Guns 1800: "This history of Belle Starr is perhaps the most complete work done on the female bandit to date, but when the author brings Billy the Kid into the picture he is rather careless with his facts." Dobie p. 141.

Volair Limited, 1978. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine. Cloth in cloth clam shell case, silk end papers and silk lining inside box. First edition.

Northland Press, 1986. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Very fine copy in dust jacket. First edition.

Biobooks, 1947. Hardcover. Fine. Cloth, fine copy. Reprint edition. "First California Edition" limited to 1,000 copies. Zamorano Eighty 63: "Lieutenant Revere was a graduate of Annapolis and a grandson of Paul Revere. His Tour of Duty is one of the outstanding authorities on the period of the Conquest, and his descriptions of California and the gold regions are among the best." Cowan p. 530. Graff 3474. Howes R222.

William Hutchinson of Cohasset Stage, 1946. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Illustrated by Harold Bugbee. Designed and printed at the Pass of the Rio Bravo by Carl Hertzog. Cloth, dust jacket chipped and worn, book very good plus. Western writer L. M. Rice's copy with his signature. First edition. Six Score 89: "An excellent collection of stories by the beloved range country writer. Besides the design by Hertzog and the Bugbee illustrations, the book contains 'My Salute to Gene Rhodes,' by J. Frank Dobie. 1,000 copies were printed." Dobie/Dykes 87: "The edition consisted of 1,000 copies which have been going at a premium in the trade for many years. The book contains five great short stories tied together by a cowman, aforesaid Bates, one of Rhodes' most vivid fictional characters. There are even some cows in these stories and if they seem a mite shadowy, the drouth [sic] described in one of the stories is very real. It also contains all of the Rhodes poems Hutchinson could find, plus a… Read More

University of Oklahoma, 1957. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Dust jacket, fine. First edition. Selected by W.H. Hutchinson.

Cloth, no dust jacket, very good copy. Dobie p. 115: "A poetic portrait in fiction, with psychological values of a big cowman and his wife." Dobie/Dykes 41: "Mr. Richter is a poet, his prose surging like tall grass on illimitable plains under the winds of day and night. His best novel, exciteable with plot interest, is built around the decline and fall of a mighty cattle king." Dykes, High Spots of Western Fiction: "is an absolute cow country classic." Powell, Heart of the Southwest 92: "The setting is a great ranch of grazing land in West Texas, encroached on by nesters, and the story is of the unyielding baronial rancher's inabilty to hold a high-spirited young wife."

Guthrie, Oklahoma, Co-Operative Publishing Co., 1936. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Cloth, very scarce dust jacket is chipped, lightly soiled and has a small tape repair, very good. Book is in very good condition. First edition. Herd 1897. Guns 1856: Although purporting to be a history of the Chisholm Trail, this book also contains much on outlaws, the killing of Ed Short and Charlie Bryant, the Talbot raid, the Lincoln County War, and a chapter on Henry Brown. He continues to follow the many legends about Billy the Kid. Loring Campbell. Dobie p. 116: He had gone over the land, lived with range men, studied history. A noble book, rich in anecdote and character. Dobie/Dykes 25. Howes R281: aa. Six Score 91: The best book on the Chisholm Trail. The scope of the book actually extends beyond the trail to encompass much cattle lore from Texas and elsewhere.

E. P. Dutton, 1992. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Very fine copy in dust jacket. First edition. The most scathing indictment of the beef industry since Upton Sinclair's The Jungle.

University of New Mexico, 1971. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Very good copy in dust jacket. Signed by the author. First edition.

Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1940. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Cloth, dust jacket chipped and worn, book very good plus. First trade edition.

Austin, Press of von Boeckmann-Jones Co., 1928. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Wrappers, some dampstaining along the bottom of the spine affecting the first page also, else very good. Carl Hertzog's copy with his signature on the inside of front cover. First edition. Guns 1871: Scarce. The author tells about some of her husbands encounters with outlaws and feudists. Basic Texas Books 178 (note): An essential companion work to Rangers and Sovereignty is the small book by his wife, Lucvenia (Conway) Roberts, A Womans Reminiscences of Six Years in Camp with the Texas Rangers (Austin: Press of Von Boeckmann-Jones Co., 1928). Known as the Assistant Commander of Company D, she was in the field with her husband during most of his time of service. Her memoirs are full of incidents of tent life in West Texas, and include some excellent photographs of the Rangers in the field and in camp. Dobie p. 60: Mrs. Roberts was a sensible and charming woman with a seeing eye. Howes R340.

Carl Hertzog, 1967. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine. Cloth, fine. First edition.

The Southwest Press, 1931. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Cloth backed boards, a very good copy. First edition.