The Gunmaker Of Moscow

1888. or, Vladimir the Monk. New York: Robert Bonner's Sons, 1888. Original buff wrappers. First Edition in book form, published in the year following the death of this prodigious New England writer (born in Maine). This tale had first appeared in the New York Ledger in 1856, the year in which Cobb began his lifelong association with that… Read more about this item

The A.S. Wickwire Press, 1900. Date unknown, circa 1900s. Inscription on front inside cover (1910). Good condition hardcover. . Hardcover. Good.

New York: Robert Bonner's Sons, 1888. First Edition. Original pictorial cloth stamped in black. First published in the New York Ledger in 1856, this is the first printing of this tale in book form. Published the same year by Bonner in buff wrappers, priority unknown. Illustrated with engraved frontispiece. Cobb was by all accounts a prolific writer of "pulp"… Read more about this item

Deposit, NY: The A. S. Wickwire Press, 1900. Undated, ca. 1900. Part of the American Series of Famous Fiction. Historical fiction about Peter I of Russia. Green cloth with green and white engraving mounted on the front cover. Light edgewear, sound binding, lightly foxed outer edges, personal ex-libris stamp on front pastedown, light smudging to front… Read more about this item

New York: G. W. Dillingham Co. Publishers, 1898. Red cloth, color decorative image of a man with rifle, Russian eagle.. Fair-Good/No Dust Jacket. Novel, story of a Russian armorer, first published serially in the New York Ledger. Scarce edition, hard-to-find. 196 pages plus advertisements, unmarked but stiff. Backstrip and left half of cover are very faded. Tear in… Read more about this item

Deposit, NY: A. S. Wickwire Press. G/NO DUSTJACKET. ca 1900. ........ Cloth/Boards. Sm 8vo., 196 pp., cover rubbed, edges frayed, inside hinge cracked,page toning .

New York: Robert Bonner's Sons...The Trade supplied by The American News Company, 1888. Frontis., [7], 196 pp. 8vo. Brown publisher's cloth. VG. Frontis., [7], 196 pp. 8vo. Cobb was a popular and prolific author of stories and novelettes whose association with the New York Ledger produced (according to Kunitz and Haycraft), 130 novelettes, 834 short stories, and 2,305… Read more about this item

Chicago: M. A. Donohoe, 1915. [1st printing, undated][series run 1910-1920]. Cover art is uncredited. Tanning; edge and corner nicks and wear; #10 written in pencil on front; minor wet spots.. Paperback. Very Good.

Deposit, NY: The A.S. Wickwire Press. 1st Edition thus . Hardcover. Very Good+/No Jacket. Black-stamped dark green cloth, handsome paste-on of the gunmaker/blacksmith. Editor: Dr. Jno. Rudd. "American Series of Famous Fiction." No names, clean text. Solid. 25680 shelf

NY: The Federal Book Company. Good with no dustjacket. N.D.. Hardcover. Clean text. Some moderate, average cover wear. ; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" ; 247 pages .

New York: G.W. Dillingham, 1898. Rubbed and worn, rear wrap missing. Tanned, 1" chip from the upper front free end paper. Previous owner's name on the title page and at the first chapter. Binding still solid, good reading copy. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Paperback. Poor/No Jacket.