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Paperback. Condition: Good. Not Stated (illustrator). Three very scarce 20th-century Western novels 'Colt Verdict', 'Owl-Hoot Trail', and 'The Gringo Kid', part of the Smashing Western series by Fiction House. Three mid-twentieth-century Western novels, part of the 'Smashing Western' series published by Fiction House Ltd.IncludingColt Verdict by Webb Anders,Owl-Hoot Trail by Jamie Boyd, andThe Gringo Kid by Pete Tolson.All volumes are undated, and have been dated using JISC and WorldCat.All early editions in the publisher's original pictorial paperback bindings.Very scarce to find works.Western fiction is a genre defined by its setting: in the American Old West frontier. The first ever Western novel is often considered to be The Virginian by Owen Wister, published in 1902. From this point on, Westerns, especially Western short stories, gained popularity, especially through the new medium of pulp magazines. The 1940s saw an influx of seminal Western novels, includingThe Ox-Bow Incident by Walter van Tilburg Clark (1940) and The Big Sky by A.B. Guthrie Jr. (1947), which lead to an increased popularity in the genre. In the publisher's original pictorial paperback bindings.Externally, some shelf and edgewear to the extremities. A small amount of loss to the front of the paperback binding of 'Colt Verdict'. Some light creasing to the spines and a small crease to the top left corner of the rear of the paperback binding to 'Owl-Hoot Trail'. A tidemark to the rear of the paperback binding of 'Colt Verdict'. Internally, all volumes are firmly bound. A tidemark to the first and last page of 'Colt Verdict', and some light age-toning to the pages, otherwise pages are generally clean. Good. book.