Robert Rigsby (16 results)

Paperback. Condition: New.

very good some edge paper ageing.

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Very Good. First Edition; First Printing. New York: The Frank A. Munsey Company [A Red Star Magazine]. Very Good. 1939. First Edition; First Printing. Softcover. Pictorial wrappers [about 6.75" x 10"], 128 pages, illustrated including a rear cover ad for Union Leader smoking tobacco. Includes "Children of Tomorrow" by Arthur Leo Zagat, "Salt-Water Hick" by Jacland Marmur, "Americans Are Different" by Robert W. Cochran, "Gold at Black-Knife" by C. F. Kearns, "Big Whisper" by Robert Arnet, etc. A very good or better copy with publication year added to the spine, light edge wear to the cover, light chipping and small tears to edges. Pages lightly toned. See photos. bx431/E.

SingleIssueMagazine. Condition: Good+ to Very Good-. Vol. 284, No. 2. Pulp magazine. [Edited by Chandler H. Whipple.] Cover art by Emmett Watson for "Lost House" (pt. 1 of 6) by Frances Shelley Wees. Includes "Pirates of Foggy Reef" (novelet) by Robert E. Pinkerton; "I'll Be Glad When You're Dead" by Howard Rigsby; "Midas of the Mountains" (pt. 2 of 3) by Donald Barr Chidsey; "Men of Daring: Johnson and Granere - Aerial Acrobats" (true story in pictures) by Stookie Allen; "Refugee Land" (novelet) by C. F. Kearns; "Off Soundings" by Richard Howells Watkins; "Cut Loose Your Wolf" (pt. 4 of 6) by Bennett Foster; "The Horse Trader" by John Randolph Phillips. Features: "Allergy's Child" by Crossen Howard; "What, No Joneses?" by Augustus Harden; "Man Is But Flesh" by Eduard H. Ohlson; "Argonotes"; "Looking Ahead". Illustrations uncredited. Tanning; neat pencil delineations on edges of front cover art; creasing; 2" tear at upper rear hinge. Book.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Dayton / New York: McCall Corporation 1951 First edition. Pulp magazine. Oversize [about 8.25" x 11"] pictorial wrappers, 144 pages [including "X. Y. Z. Calls" by Sax Rohmer and "The Daughter of Mata Hari" by Kurt Singer], illustrated. Very good with scattered creasing, rubbing to the front cover along the spine edge, small chip to the lower left corner of the front cover, text paper tanned as usual mag12E.

almost near fine some edge paper ageing.

SingleIssueMagazine. Condition: Very Good. Vol. 291, No. 2. Pulp magazine. [Edited by Chandler H. Whipple.] Cover art by Rudolph Belarski for "Children of Tomorrow" (short novel) by Arthur Leo Zagat. Includes "Salt-Water Hick" by Jacland Marmur; "The Man From Madrid" (pt. 2 of 6) by Walter Ripperger; "Legends of the Legionaries: Lexicon of the Fighting Man" (picture feature) by W. A. Windas; "Americans Are Different" by Robert W. Cochran; "Voyage to Leandro" (pt. 3 of 5) by Howard Rigsby; "Gold at Black-Knife" by C. F. Kearns; "Men of Daring: Pete Bostwick - Millionaire Jockey" (True Story in Pictures) by Stookie Allen; "Wild River" (conclusion) by John Stromburg; "Big Whisper" by Robert Arnet. Features: "Argonotes"; "Looking Ahead!" Edge and corner nicks, short tears and minor losses; tanning; creasing; glue-shrink. Book.

Condition: very good. from the title page, "Evolution of sedimentary basins/onshore oil and gas investigations -- Santa Maria Province. softcover, 11" x 8.5", 51+ pages.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Full titles of the three reports: T] Paleogeography of the Western Traverse Range Province, California: New Evidence Fron the Late Oligocene and Early Miocene Vaqueros Formation: U] Stratigraphy of the Fine-Grained Facies of the Sisquoc Formation, Santa Maria Basin, California - Paleoceanographic and Tectonic Implications: V] The Sisquoc Formation - Foxen Mudstone Boundary in the Santa Maria Basin, California: Sedimentary Response to the New Tectonic Regime. 49 pages with tables, graphs, sections, photographs and references. A fine copy. Book.

Wraps. Condition: Very Good+. Vol. 283, No. 3. Pulp magazine. [Edited by Chandler H. Whipple.] Cover art by Rudolph Belarski for "No Shirt McGee's Medicine Show" (short novel) by Frank R. Pierce. Includes "The Invasion of America" (pt. 2 of 6) by Frederick C. Painton; "Trade Winds" by Allan Vaughan Elston; "Men of Daring: John D. Craig - Diving Cameraman" (True Story in Pictures) by Stookie Allen; "Romance on Rye" by Robert L. Blake; "Three Against the Stars" (pt. 4 of 5) by Eric North; "Dealings With Arabs" by Howard Rigsby; "Board Fence" by Murray Leinster; "Mad Money" (pt. 5 of 5) by Norbert Davis; "People Who Shout in Glass Houses" by John Nelson; "How Big Is Small?" by Eric Sharpe; "Disease Made Easy" by Charles Dorman; "Of time and the Chessmen" by J. Wentworth Tilden; "Argonotes"; "Looking Ahead!" Standard wear and tear at edges, but less than usual; a little creasing; minor hole in cover; tanning. Magazine.

Wraps. Condition: Very Good+. Vol. 283, No. 3. Pulp magazine. [Edited by Chandler H. Whipple.] Cover art by Rudolph Belarski for "No Shirt McGee's Medicine Show" (short novel) by Frank R. Pierce. Includes "The Invasion of America" (pt. 2 of 6) by Frederick C. Painton; "Trade Winds" by Allan Vaughan Elston; "Men of Daring: John D. Craig - Diving Cameraman" (True Story in Pictures) by Stookie Allen; "Romance on Rye" by Robert L. Blake; "Three Against the Stars" (pt. 4 of 5) by Eric North; "Dealings With Arabs" by Howard Rigsby; "Board Fence" by Murray Leinster; "Mad Money" (pt. 5 of 5) by Norbert Davis; "People Who Shout in Glass Houses" by John Nelson; "How Big Is Small?" by Eric Sharpe; "Disease Made Easy" by Charles Dorman; "Of time and the Chessmen" by J. Wentworth Tilden; "Argonotes"; "Looking Ahead!" Standard wear and tear at edges, but less than usual; a little creasing; tanning. Magazine.

Hardcover, no dust jacket. Very good; bumped board corners and spine edges. 250 pp.

Five vintage full-color still photographs from the 1961 UK release of the 1961 US film. Based on Howard Rigsby's novel, "Sundown at Crazy Horse," about a cowboy who, on the lam from the law, travels to visit an old flame in Mexico, only to find her married to a drunk. Screenwriter Dalton Trumbo was also at work writing the script for Otto Preminger's "Exodus" while he wrote for this film. A story set and shot on location in Mexico. 8 x 10 inches. Faint creases overall, else Near Fine.

Buckram. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Three handsome volumes, bound in brown buckram with gilt titles & profuse embelishments to spine & large mounted knight on front board surrounded by blind tooling. Some slight foxing. Scarce.

Vintage borderless reference photograph of actor Rock Hudson signing autographs on the set of the 1961 Western film, here under the working title "The Day of the Gun." With a printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso, along with the stamp of still photographer Shirley Clarke (not to be confused with the filmmaker of the same name). Based on the 1957 novel "Sundown at Crazy Horse" by Howard Rigsby (under the pseudonym Vechel Howard). While on the run from the law, a cowboy travels to visit an old lover in Mexico, only to find her married to a drunk. Set in Texas and Mexico, and shot on location in Mexico. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus, with light creasing to the edges. Pitts 2237.

Vintage photograph of Robert Aldrich and Kirk Douglas on the set of the 1961 film. With manuscript annotations on the verso in green and brown ink, and pencil. Based on the 1957 novel by Howard Rigsby (under the pseudonym Vechel Howard) about a cowboy who, on the run from the law, travels to visit an old lover in Mexico, only to find her married to a drunk. Screenwriter Dalton Trumbo was also at work writing the script for Otto Preminger's "Exodus" while he wrote for this film. Set and shot on location in Mexico. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine.