Vigilante Justice. by Valentine, Alan - 1958.

Reynal & Co, 1956-01-01. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 8x5x1. Shelf wear to binding on corners, edges & spine. Light wear & soiling/foxing on edges of text block. Small abrasion on 2nd ffep. Pages toning with age, otherwise Text and images unmarked. Dj in poor condition with detached front flap, chipping, foxing, soiling etc. Dust jacket in a mylar cover.

Reynal & Co, 1956. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Edge wear to jacket at top of spine. .

Reynal, 1956. 1st. Hardcover. A Near FINE tight copy in a VG+ bright dj.

New York: Reynal & Company. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1956. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo; 173 pages .

New York:: Reynal & Company, 1956.. 1st Edition.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: tan cloth; some light stains to the cloth, otherwise a Very Good book, with a Good+ dust jacket; the dust jacket is not price clipped.. 8vo (about 8.5 inches tall) . Illustrated endpapers. Description: ''Give them a good honest trial, and then hang them!'' Such was the cry of mining-town tribunals in the turbulent years of the Forty-niners in San Francisco. Out of the chaos of crime and mockery of the courts, the Vigilantes arose to impose their own form of law and order upon a demoralized city. Their story is one of the most colorful in American history. General Sherman and Captain Farragut, both to achieve later fame, were among the actors on a central stage, crowded with gamblers, ex-convicts, prostitutes and murderers. The Committee not only took law into their own hands, but raised money to build a city jail, which had not previously existed. The citizens of San Francisco in the 1850s were fighting not only an… Read More

hardcover. 8vo, cloth. N.Y., 1956.<br/><br/>

New York: Reynal & Company. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket. 1956. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good- dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping and rubbing. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket has sevearl edge tears, a tear to the center of the spine, and some light toning. "Alan Chester Valentine (February 23, 1901 – July 14, 1980) was an American academic who competed on the gold-medal winning American rugby union team in the 1924 Summer Olympics, was president of the University of Rochester, and served in the Truman Administration as a Marshall Plan official and as the first head of the Economic Stabilization Agency." (from Wikipedia) .

New York: Reynal & Company, 1956. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. First edition. Octavo. 173pp. Owner's name neatly penned on front fly, newspaper offsetting on rear endpaper, else very good in a near fine lightly worn dustwrapper.

Reynal & Company, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Octavo. Photographs. A clean, tight, unmarked copy from the library of Columbia College author/scholar and Story Workshop creator John Schultz.

New York.: Reynal & Co., 1958.. First edition.. Hardcover.. Fine copy in fine (spine lightly sunned) dust jacket (in mylar).. Octavo.. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition.