The Killers
by Baxter, George Owen (pseud. for Frederick Faust, aka Max Brand)
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Los Angeles, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: The Macaulay Company. Very Good. (c.1931, 1928). First Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [moderate shelfwear, some browning/spotting to page edges, light bumps and slight fraying to cloth at bottom corners, one-time owner's signature in pencil on ffep, tiny tear at fore-edge of title page]. Crime novel that segues to a Western setting about halfway through (hence the Western-motif front-cover decoration of a man on horseback waving a large hat), by this prolific pulp novelist, one of eleven books he wrote under the Baxter pseudonym between 1923 and 1935. This tells the exploits of "Geraldi, dashing knight errant, [who] is a modern Robin Hood who preys only upon those who have preyed upon others." Originally serialized in Western Story Magazine in 1928; later published (as by Max Brand) as "Three on the Trail," and subsequently in paperback as "Gunman's Goal." [The original serial title was probably "Tragedy Trail," although I've not verified this directly; another seller claims it was "Three on the Trail," but that title does not appear among the list of serials credited to Baxter during 1928.] (**) .
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Details
- Bookseller
- ReadInk (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 15653
- Title
- The Killers
- Author
- Baxter, George Owen (pseud. for Frederick Faust, aka Max Brand)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- The Macaulay Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- (c.1931, 1928)
- Keywords
- Pulp Fiction, Adventure
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- First Edition
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- Shelfwear
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- Edges
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- Cloth
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- FFEP
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- Bumps
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