Stanley Bess (10 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. SIGNED by both authors with no inscription. Near-fine softcover copy, first edition, showing light reading/handling use. Signed by Author(s).

Stapled. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Reprint. SIGNED by the authors. "Good" condition showing wear to covers and at extremities. Reprint of the Van Eaton book of the same title. There are two versions of this reprint, one with stapled covers/pages that came first and another that is softcover, a later printing. This is the stapled pages version. Signed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Reprint. SIGNED by the authors. Near-fine condition showing light reading/handling wear. From the library of famed western historian/author Robert K. DeArment and has his imprint on foreword/contents page. This is a reprint of the Van Eaton book of the same title. There are two versions of this reprint, one with stapled covers/pages that came first and another that is softcover, a later printing. This is the softcover version. Signed by Author(s).

First separate edition, reprinted from the Georgia Historical Quarterly, Vol. XLI, No. 2 & 3 (June & September, 1957). 8vo. 40 pp. Laid in is a 1974 Coosa Valley Book Shop invoice, inscribed by V. Grigsby. Printed cream wrappers, stapled. Very good.

Printed Wraps. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition/First Printing. No date given; assume first printing. Signed by both authors. 91 numbered pages. Thumbnail sketches of 15 notorious bad guys of the old west.

Stapled Booklet. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. Signed by both authors with no inscription. Near-fine condition booklet. Old price-sticker on front cover. Signed by Author(s).

Soft Cover. Condition: Fine. Reprint of the notoriously scarce original book by an unknown author. Oversize tan pictorial wraps. 140 pages. Price sticker on the cover otherwise a fine copy. SIGNED BY BOTH AUTHORS. The book is a first-hand account of Judge Parker's reign in the lusty, brawling Wild West from 1875 to 1896. Scarce. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Signed.

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Good. Illustrated by Roberts, H. Armstrong; Knopf, Hans; Olsen, Herb; Monet,Dorothy; Pachner, William; Hawes, Charles; Darby, Eileen; Monroe, C.E.Jr.; Mawicke, Tran; Burns, George; Docktor, Irv S.; (illustrator). First Edition. 74 pages. Articles:.Stanley Anderson of Britain is Becoming An American; The Forty-Niners Listen in the Hills - Mining for Uranium - article with color photos; Unholy Crusade - Communism vs. the Church; Psycho Ward No. 3 - Boston Psychopathic; Young People in Theatre - John Barrymore, Jr.; No Business for Sissies - Henry Trefflich is the biggest wild-animal dealer in the U.S.; Star Without a Country - Tennis star Jaroslav Drobny; Great last page photo of a barn-raising bee with dozens of men at work. Fiction: renegade; The Sleeper; Give Me My Golden Arm; The Red Dog; Deadfall (part 2 of 3); The Heirs. Includes these nice vintage ads: Studebaker Trucks; Hamilton watches; Zenith tvs; Ansco camera film; Porto-Ped shoes; Chevrolet cars; Hickok men's fashion accessories; Plymouth cars; Pabst Blue Ribbon beer - with nice colour photo of "Hap" Arnold and his wife; Ford car-safety contest (centerfold); Budweiser; Camel cigarettes (back cover) featuring Olympic swimmer Jeanne Wilson. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy.; Folio - over 12" - 15" tall; Collier's, The National Weekly Magazine, September 10, 1949 Stanley Anderson of Britain is Becoming An American; The Forty-Niners Listen in the Hills - Mining for Uranium - article with color photos; Unholy Crusade - Communism vs. the Church; Psycho Ward.

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Good. First Edition. Features: Great cover photo of an East German customs checkpoint at Berlin; Berlin Beleaguered - Today the population lives far better than when blockaded a decade ago but it feels a great unease generated by new Communist pressures; West Berlin Moods - photos of Berlin scenes; Labor's House Three Years After - anniversary of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. merger finds the union movement with some notable gains and a closetful of troubles; The 'Overwhelming' Robert Frost - At 84, the new poetry consultant to the Library of Congress looks like the symbol of a poet; What Went Wrong in Pakistan - Its sick parliamentary system has died - photo-illustrated article; How Balanchine Changed Ballet - something special has been achieved by the New York City Ballet, aged ten; The Oval Room - Eisenhoweriana; Messages From the Invisible Universe, by Arthur C. Clarke - Radio waves, reaching the earth from vast distances, are clues to a greater cosmos - with photo of the giant radio-telescope at Jodrell Bank, Manchester; Teaching the Young to Look - and See; Students in Search of Faith - Today's seminarians; Nice two-page color-photo ad for the Dorado Beach Hotel in Puerto Rico; Japan Turns Against the 'Gyangu' - crackdown on teen-age toughs; What Should a Man Tell His Wife?; Hottest Fighter in Town - Jose Torres; Lovely one-page color-photo ad for Jamaica features Mary Martin Halliday; The Care of the Reluctant Schoolboy; Play is Child's Work; Cookie Recipes; The Season for Springerle; Photos of fashionable rainwear for ladies; Photo feature of home designed by Richard Gordon to be child-proof; and more. 96 pages. Many fascinating black and white reproductions of photos plus sensational fashion ads, some of which are in color. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy.

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Very Good. Illustrated by Ludekens, Fred; Lee, Doris Belck (illustrator). First Edition. Features: Bible of Baseball - Taylor Spink and his 'The Sporting News' prove fans can take it by the ream; Treasure on the Ocean Floor - Gulf-coast Greeks go down, sponges come up; Tokyo Calls the Tune - Hitler rediscovers the Yellow Peril - Tokyo style; Russia Will Hold This Summer - by former U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union, Joseph E. Davies; How to Have Fun With Weeds - Don't Dump them at the garden's edge - eat them; Dorothy Lamour - Big Pie Plate - Jack Price is a demon dish salesman; I Escaped from Hong Kong (last of 3 articles) - flight across China, from Hong Kong's horrors, by Jan Henrik Marsman; Should Congress Vote a Sales Tax to Finance the War? Stories: Where is Tita?; Pike Pohlman Invades a Barony; Four-Cornered Turn; Destroyer from America; The Ranger Takes a Honeymoon; The Case of the Careless Kitten (part 5 of 8); Assignment in Brittany (conclusion). 102 pages. Nice color-illustrated one-page Mack Truck ad shows army green dump truck being loaded with earth. Interesting Bostitch ad shows huge stapler about to staple a prone Japanese soldier. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A well-preserved copy of this vintage WWII-era issue.; Cover Illustration; Folio.