Editor Frank Dearing (9 results)

Library binding. Condition: Good. Hardcover. No DJ. Ex-library with usual markings. RE-BOUND BY LIBRARY. Pages clean and unmarked. Some page edge and corner bumps/bends. Covers show minor shelf wear with rubbing. Binding is tight, hinges strong. Smudging on page fore-edges.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day.…

Softcover. Condition: Fine. First Printing. The Best Novels of Eugene Manlove Rhodes by Frank V. Dearing (Editor) Firm square copy with bright colorful covers. Eugene Manlove Rhodes's masterpiece, "Pasó Por Aquí", opens this collection of his short novels and stories, set in New Mexico, where he lived during the 1880s and 1890s. J. Frank Dobie praised Rhodes's artistry, and Bernard DeVoto thought he wrote "much the best dialogue . . . Of western characters since Mark Twain." Included are the novelettes "Good Men and True," "Bransford of Rainbow Range," and "The Trusty Knaves.". BOOK.…

Unknown. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

unknown_binding. Condition: Good.

Soft cover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: None as Issued. First Edition, First Printing. BRAND NEW & Collectible. First Edition, First Printing. Western fiction. Anthology that brings together works of Eugene Manlove Rhodes (1869 - 1934), nicknamed the "cowboy chronicler" for fidelity to subject, whose work was mostly first published in newspapers and magazines. This collection includes 4 novels (led by Paso por Aqui, a story of a down-on-the-luck cowboy turned bank robber; adapted to film, Four Faces West, 1948, Joel McCrea); 2 novelettes; 4 short stories; a prose narrative; an essay; and, a poem. To the rear is the Epitaph Rhodes wrote for himself and speaks volumes of his personal philosophy: "Now hushed at last the murmur of his mirth/Here he lies quiet in the quiet earth/---When the last trumpet sounds of land and sea/He will arise then, chatting cheerfully/And, blandly interrupting Gabriel/He will go sauntering down the road to hell/He will pause loitering the infernal gate/Advising Satan on affairs of state/Complaining loudy that the roads are bad/and bragging what a jolly grave he had!" His gravestone reads, "Paso por aqui.".…

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. 551 pages. Very good in dust jacket. (183).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Three small white dots on the rear board and previous owners name on the half title page otherwise Near Fine in a Very Good jacket. 1st Printing.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Includes dust jacket. First Edition. Passages underlined/notes in the margins. Wear and creases to the book.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 551 pages. First edition, first printing. Dust jacket design by Robert Hallock. Novels, novelettes, short stories, narratives, essays & poems of Rhodes, some which appear in print for the first time. Edited by Frank V. Dearing. Introduction by J. Frank Dobie titled, A Salute To Gene Rhodes. Signed by Dobie on the title page. Near fine book with the spine lightly tanned in an almost fine dust jacket with a touch of rubbing to the corners. A beautiful copy. Signed by Author(s). …