Edwin Moultrie Lanham (6 results)

Condition: Good. 1958. No Edition Remarks. 200 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with gilt. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning.…

Hardcover. First Edition. 311p., first edition, very good condition. No dj. *Rideout novel. "An Oklahoma tenant farmer and his two sons, one of whom becomes a labor organizer and the other an outlaw." *Hanna 2088.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First UK edition, first impression. Some edge wear and chipping to top and bottom of jacket and spine, corners rubbed with tiny loss, slight lean, some slight overall dust staining, some slight browning and offsetting to page block, not price clipped (12/6), no inscriptions, internally clean and tight, overall a vg+ copy for its age, in bright unfaded largely dark orange jacket. 320pp. The story of the life and downfall of Peter King, and his friendship, soon to turn to hatred, with Piet Corneels, an Afrikaner of fanatically Nationalistic convictions. By American thriller writer Edwin Moultrie Lanham (1904-79). Jacket By Harry Toothill (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First UK edition, first impression. Some edge wear and creasing to top and bottom of classic Gollancz yellow jacket and spine, corners rubbed with bottom front corner repaired with old tape, slight lean, some slight overall dust staining, not price clipped (13/6), no inscriptions, internally clean and tight, overall a vg+ copy for its age. 255pp. Two successive murders, two successive husbands, was she innocent? By American thriller writer Edwin Moultrie Lanham (1904-79).…

Hardcover. 311p., first edition, signed & inscribed by Lanham "For Barney - my friend through thick and City News, Edwin Lanham," (Lanham worked at the New York City News Association, 1934 - 1939), minor foxing of textblock edges, else very good condition, in a worn dust jacket with large chips at the spine ends *Rideout novel. "An Oklahoma tenant farmer and his two sons, one of whom becomes a labor organizer and the other an outlaw." *Hanna 2088.…

8vo. viii, [2], 481, [1] pp. Brown publisher's cloth, gilt lettering front cover & spine, pictorial map endpapers (offset toning to half-title, minor shelfwear, rubbing), w/ d.j. wraparound Art Deco cover art of arrows fired into a plow (minor chipping & tears head of spine, scuffing, rubbing to spine), still a VG/G- copy, inscribed by the author to Elof Carlson dated Nov. 25, 1935, from the library of the son, Elof Axel Carlson (1931-2025), noted geneticist, historian of science, and fierce opponent of eugenics. First edition, stated & inscribed, of this Texas historical fiction set against the backdrop of the aftermath of the 1871 Warren Wagon Train Raid, where Kiowa & Comanche ambushed a supply wagon train along the Texas frontier, and General William Tecumseh Sherman and his staff barely escaped the attack. Subsequently, Kiowa Chiefs Satanta, Satank, and Big Tree were arrested, faced trial in Jacksboro, TX, and although sentenced to death, were later pardoned by the Texas governor. The aftermath set the stage for the Red River War of 1874-1875. Vernacular terms, and contemporary racism sprinkle through the novel, including references to Jim Crow segregation of African-Americans, and the Ku Klux Klan. Very scarce in original dustjacket.…