Capt Dan Roberts (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. B&w illustrations (illustrator). Facsimile Reprint. vi, 190pp & 64pp + Index [short, closed tear at top front dust jacket] Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Reprint. Clean, bright & tight copy with dj protected in mylar.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. First edition. Hard cover published by Wood Printing and Engraving Co. in 1914. No dust jacket. Olive covers with black lettering on front and spine. Front covers is faded and stained along side and bottom edges. Spine is faded some and stained, and back covers is scuffed and stained. Covers are bowed. Corners are bumped. First ten pages have water damage in middle of pages. Book is in acceptable condition. Small 8vo, 190 pages, .8 lb.; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 190 pages.

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Good. Miller, R.C. (cover photo); Brigden, Fred H.; Leake, Gerald; Sweeney, Dan; Iligan, Ralph; Thorne, Diana; (illustrator). First Edition. 64 pages. Features: Cover photo of young lady in red hat with veil; Quink ink ad; Orange Crush ad features brown bottle; How to Treat Germany in Collapse; One-page ad for the Trans-Canada Telephone System; One-page colour GM ad features reproduction of painting of dock scene by Fred H. Brigden; Rebirth of a Nation - photo-illustrated article on Holland as it comes back to life after the war; Debit for Plunder - photo-illustrated article on the Nazis and the most gigantic robbery of all time; The House of Four Winds (short story); One Bad Turn (short story); Running Test (short story); Trade Follows the Treaty - photo-illustrated article on thriving world trade after the defeat of Germany; The Big Fellows (short story); Nice one-page black and white Kodak photo ad shows LAC Harold Campbell of Thorold, Ontario, a member of the crash crew at an R.A.F. airfield in southern England; Fantastic one-page federal Liberal party election ad with photo of Mackenzie King says "Opportunities for All. Buid a New Social Order, Vote Liberal"; Evinrude ad shows troops in small watercraft; Notes for Newlyweds; Nice colour ads for Savoy Custard, Magic Baking Powder, and Chase & Sanborn coffee - with Charlie McCarthy comic; Fashion illustrations; The New Fashioned Woman - Relax in Slacks; Beauty Becomes You - fashion article with photos; Colour portrait of Susan Peters in Woodbury Powder ad; Photo of Ethel Merman in Arrid ad; Colour Coke ad inside back cover with illustration of party with young sailor; GSW/McClary appliances colour ad on back cover; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A lovely vintage copy.

First edition. First edition. Cloth, 190 pp., frontispiece. "This account of the Frontier Battalion of Texas Rangers was written by one of its field captains. This group of rangers, wrote Walter Prescott Webb, 'left behind a tradition of courage and heroic individual action which is unsurpassed by any organization in any country in the world.'.The volume gives a remarkable, concise account of the service of one of the most active of all Texas Ranger units."---John H. Jenkins. A classic account of his many fights with Indians, outlaws, rustlers, murderers and feuding families on the frontiers of western and southern Texas. Previous owner's name on front endpaper, else a near fine copy. A very scarce work.