ride west de orourke frank (7 résultats)

Soft cover. Etat : Good. 1st ed. #49. PB. A little writing in pen at btm edge of back cv else G-VG. Leaves (some lightly brwnd) reglued neatly albeit wi/small offset at back cv & light-mod. roll; small-med. sized light-mod. staining near top edges of cv's/leaves throughout.

Soft cover. Etat : Near Fine. Eleven stories, light crease very small chip to head of spine no marks.

Paperback. Etat : VG +. paperback / 11 top-notch stories of action in the big country.

Paperback. Etat : Good. Pages unmarked. Dent om upper front edge of cover. Light creases on cover. Binding square & firm. Book.

Soft cover. Etat : Near Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. 182 Pp + Author Biography And Ads At Rear. First Edition, Softcover Issue. Near Fine, Slight Wear At Tips, No Marks. From The Collection Of Ian Ballantine, With The Estate Card.

Boards. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Near Fine DJ. First Edition. The Publisher's Personal Copy, Never Sold Or Circulated, Direct From The Publisher's Library. Scarce; Ballantine Reports That Less Than 2000 Hard Copies Were Usually Done For Their Hardcover Novels, Especially The Westerns, And Other Reports Indicate That Most Went To Libraries. The Condition Of This Book And Dj Is Excellent. The Book As Slight Rubbing Right Along The Top And Bottom Of The Spine, And Three Tiny Spots On The Top Of The Page Block. The Dj Has A Single 1/8" Square Chip At Base Of Spine, And Fading Of Orange Sj Spine From Orange To Yellow, All Lettering Clear. Per Wikipedia, Rank O'rourke (1916 - 1989) Was An American Writer Known For Western And Mystery Novels And Sports Fiction. O'rourke Wrote More Than 60 Novels And Numerous Magazine Articles. Born In Denver, Colorado, He Attended Kemper Military School. A Very Talented Amateur Baseball Player, He Considered Trying Out For A Professional Team, But Was Called Up For Service In World War Ii. By The End Of The War He Had Decided To Become A Writer; His First Novel Was E Company (1945), Based In Part On His Wartime Experiences. O'rourke Dedicated The Book To Max Brand, Whom He Knew Before The War. In The Book O'rourke Named A Fictional War Correspondent Max Hastings After Him. Several Of O'rourke's Novels Were Filmed; The Bravados (1958) Was The First, And His Novel A Mule For The Marquesa Was Made Into A Popular Movie Named The Professionals (1966). The Great Bank Robbery Was Filmed In 1969. Later In Life, O'rourke Turned To Writing Children's Literature.

Cloth. Etat : VG+. Etat de la jaquette : VG. First Edition. Minor wear to edges of boards; light tanning to endpapers and page edges; otherwise a square, clean copy. Bright DJ has light wrinkling from shrinkage of old protector; small, black stains to spine ends from old protector; small pull from bottom of front panel; front panel lightly sunned and spine heavily sunned with color loss; price-clipped. Scarce Ballantine hardcover H-49. NOTE: Scan of front panel exaggerates the fading. The color a light orange and not yellow.