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1 Arthur Henry Gooden Guns on the High Mesa
Grosset & Dunlap Hardcover Very Good Book 
Hardcover, no DJ. Grosset & Dunlap, 1943. In very good condition, boards have wear on corners and some color missing, looks like DJ may have been glued to end papers, some leftover brown paper there, slight spine twist, pages yellowing. An old fashioned Western tale with guns, a girl, and lots of danger! 
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2 Bert Murphy Ventures West Book One Sun and Shadow Ventures
Roswell, NM Mbar Publishing 1996 0965029816 / 9780965029810 Soft cover Very Good Book Signed by Author(s)
A hip-pocket book to fit your riding britches. Very good condition. Signed by author on title page. A fictional account of James Houston Slack and his lifetime of adventures in the American Southwest. 
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3 Betty Carney Taussig Windfall of Inheited Treasures
Soft cover Near Fine Book 
Large softcover. Windfall Publishing, 1983. In near fine condition. Water color illustrations.An old Southern Maryland family as they lived American history. 
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4 Dahl, Roald Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life : Stories
New York, NY, U.S.A. Alfred A. Knopf Incorporated 1990 0394582659 / 9780394582658 Hardcover Near Fine Book Lawrence, John (illustrator) 
Small hardcover. Alfred A Knopf, first American edition, 1990. In near fine condition, with a mylar cover. Stories of an English village in the years after WWII. 
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5 Dale L. Walker In a Far Country - Jack London's Tales of the West
0915463369 / 9780915463367 First Edition Soft cover Good Book 
Trade paperback. Jameson Books, first, 1987. In good condition. light stain on outside of book pages. An anthology of his best tales of the West. Includes To Build a Fire. 
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6 Evans, Max; Moulton, Candy Hot Biscuits: Eighteen Stories by Women and Men of the Ranching West
Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S.A. Univ of New Mexico Pr 2002 082632889X / 9780826328892 First Edition Hardcover Very Good Book 
Hardcover. University of New Mexico Press, 2002, stated first edition. In very good condition. An anthology of Western stories. Most stories have biscuits in them because it was a cowboy staple! 
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7 Fitzgerald, F. Scott; Wolfe, Thomas; Greenberg, Martin H.; McSherry, Frank D. Confederate Battle Stories
Little Rock, Arkansas, U.S.A. August House Pub Inc 1992 0874831911 / 9780874831917 First Edition Soft cover Near Fine Book 
Trade paperback. August House, 1992, first edition. In near fine condition. The Civil Ware in stories by Thomas Wolfe, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Owen Wister, and Other Writers. 
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8 Forester, C. S. Hornblower and the Hotspur (Hornblower Ser., No. 3)
New York, NY, U.S.A. Little Brown & Company 1998 0316290467 / 9780316290463 Soft cover Very Good Book 
Trade paperback. Little, Brown & Co, 1998. In very good condition. Third in the Hornblower series. 
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9 Forester, Cecil Scott Mr Midshipman Hornblower
Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A. Little Brown & Co 1984 0316289124 / 9780316289122 Soft cover Very Good Book 
Trade paperback. Little Brown & Co, 1984. In very good condition. The year is 1793, the eve of the Napoleonic Wars, and Horatio Hornblower, a seventeen-year-old boy unschooled in seafaring and the ways of seamen, is ordered to board a French merchant ship and take command of crew and cargo for the glory England. 
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10 Frank H Spearman Whispering Smith
Charles Scribner's Sons Hardcover Very Good Book N C Wyeth 
Hardcover, no DJ. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1909, second printing. In very good condition, board wear, pages yellowing. A classic western. 
Price: 15.00 USD
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11 Gene Stratton Porter The Harvester
Grosset & Dunlap 1916 Hardcover Fair Book 
Hardcover. Very good condition, light soiling on outside book pages, pages toning, ends of spine bumped. DJ is fair, has chips and tears, now in mylar cover. He has followed the craft his mother taught him, using herbs for healing. Now, he's ready to settle down and find a wife. But she marries him simply to get away from an evil uncle, and doesn't love him. Will she ever? 
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12 Hanson, Katherine (editor) An Everyday Story : Norwegian Women's Fiction (Women in Translation Ser.)
New York, NY, U.S.A. Avalon Publishing Group 1984 0931188229 / 9780931188220 Soft cover Very Good Book 
Trade paperback. Seal Press, 1984, first. In very good condition. Norwegian Women's Fiction. Short story anthology. 30 stories. 
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13 Harrison, Dick Best Mounted Police Stories
Georgetown, Ontario, Canada Univ of Alberta Pr 1996 0888640544 / 9780888640543 Soft cover Near Fine Book 
Trade paperback. University of Alberta Press, 1996, sixth edition. In near fine condition. Fictional recounts of mounted police activities, from the early days through the twentieth century. 
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14 Jean Plaidy Beyond the Blue Mountains
Hardcover Good Book 
Hardcover. D. Appleton-Century Co., 1947. In good condition, pages yellowing, small soil mark on outside of book pages, name on front end paper, with a poor DJ, part of it missing, covered with mylar. The story of three generations of women and their loves and their losses. 
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15 Jean Plaidy The Goldsmith's Wife
Hardcover Good Book 
Hardcover, ex-library, book club. Sears Readers Club, 1950. In good condition, usual library markings. The story of lovely Jane Shore, who married a worthy merchant and ran away with a handsome king. 
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16 Jean Plaidy The Spanish Bridegroom
Hardcover Very Good Book 
Hardcover, bookclub edition. G P Putnam, 1971. In very good condition, light foxing on top of book pages, good DJ in mylar. Young Philip agrees to marry Mary Tudor. 
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17 Jesse Stuart Taps for Private Tussie
Hardcover Very Good Book 
Hardcover, ex-library. World Publishing, second printing, 1970. In very good condition, minor library markings. Private Tussie is killed in the war and leaves behind a $10,000 insurance policy. You can't believe how many relatives suddenly turn up to help spend the money. 
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18 Jon Tuska Western Stories: A Chronological Anthology
U.S.A. Gramercy 0517186594 / 9780517186596 Hardcover Very Good Book 
Hardcover. Gramercy, 1998. In very good condition. An anthology of Western stories including: War Party by Louis L'Amour, Hank's Woman by Owen Wister, and A Man Called Horse by Dorothy Johnson, as well as others. 
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19 Jordan, Teresa (editor); Hepworth, James R. (editor) The Stories That Shape Us : Contemporary Women Write about the West
New York, NY, U.S.A. W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated 1995 0393037231 / 9780393037234 Hardcover Very Good Book 
Hardcover. W W Norton, 1995, first. In very good condition. Contemporary women write about the West. An anthology of stories. 13 authors represented. 
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20 Maggie Felt Blowdown
Maverick Publications 1991 0892882271 / 9780892882274 First Edition Soft cover Very Good Book Signed by Author(s)
Trade paperback. Very good condition, top of front cover has a small chip mark, bottom of spine bumped, tiny soil mark on bottom outside book pages. Signed by the author on front flyleaf. A man becomes a logger to investigate what happened to the logging foreman of the camp. He not only learns how to become a logger, he also falls in love with foreman's wife... 
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