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JAMES
OLIVER CURWOOD of Owosso, Michigan, 1878-1927, went from poverty to wealth,
from game hunter to conservationist. He
wrote 33 books and was one of America’s most popular novelists in his time. The Danger Trail. NY: 1944 Triangle reprint. Cloth/bright, illustrated dust jacket. VG/VG. $12 The
Flaming Forest: A Novel of the Canadian Northwest,
with illustrations by Walt Louderback.
NY: 1921, Cosmopolitan reprint.
Cloth/no dj. Good. $12 SOLD The
Gold Hunters.
NY: 1909, Triangle reprint.
Cloth/bright, illustrated dj.
VG/VG. $20 Isobel:
A Romance of the Northern Trail. NY: 1913, Grosset & Dunlap reprint. Cloth/no dj. Shelfworn. Good. $20 Kazan,
illustrated by Gayle Hoskins & Frank Hoffman. NY:
1914, G&D reprint.
Bookplate. Cloth/no dj. Good. $12 The Valley of Silent Men: A Story of the Three River Country. NY: 1920, G&D reprint. Illustrated dj. G+/G+. $20 JAMES B. Hendryx lived on Lee Point, south of Suttons Bay, where a small park and short
road bear his name. He wrote almost 60
adventure novels, published from 1915 to 1954.
Good
Men and Bad.
NY: Doubleday (Double D Western), 1954.
Signed first edition of author’s last book. VG/VG. $160 Hard
Rock Man.
NY: Carlton House (Bar H Books), 1940.
First edition. Ex-lib. and only
fair condition but scarce title. $75 Gold
and the Mounted. NY:
Doubleday Doran, 1928. First
edition. Early title in good
condition. $60 Gold
is Where You Find It.. NY:
Doubleday (Double D Western), 1953.
First edition, ex-lib. copy.
Particular mention of Traverse City, Michigan. Good in fair dj. $60 Czar
of Halfaday Creek. Sun
Dial reprint of title copyrighted in 1940.
Bright red cloth/no dj. Scarce
title. $55 Corporal
Downey Takes the Trail.. NY:
Doubleday Doran, 1931. First edition,
rebound in blue cloth. VG. $60 At the Foot of the Rainbow.. NY: Putnam’s, 1924. First edition of an early Hendryx title. Blue cloth with faded gilt spine title; owner stamp and some browning inside front cover; o/w bright and clean. $40 SOLD Blood
on the Yukon Trail. NY:
Doubleday Doran, 1930. First
edition. Black cloth. Owner stamp; slight dampstaining to rear
board. Good. $40 Snowdrift. Burt reprint of
1922 title. Spine sunned; no dj. $20 The Gold Girl. Burt reprint of 1920 title. Shelfwear; loose hinges; no dj; prob. ex-lib. $20 SOLD Raw
Gold. Center Books/Sun Dial reprint of 1933 title. Illustrated dust jacket. G/G. $14 Gambler’s
Chance. Books,
Inc. reprint of 1944 title. Illustrated
dj. $20 SOLD Blood of the North. Blakiston reprint of 1938 title. Illustrated dj. G+/G+. $15 |