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The Iron Orchard by Tom Pendleton 9780875657400
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $36.41Originally published in 1966 under the pen name Tom Pendleton, The Iron Orchard garnered a cult following for its authentic representation of the people and the industry in the oil fields of Texas... -
The Administration of Equity Through Common Law Forms, as Practised in Pennsylvania: Introductory Lecture of the Session 1880-1 of the Law Department of the University of Pennsylvania. by Richard C McMurtrie 9781240146475
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $19.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781240146475Author Richard C McMurtrieFormat PaperbackImprint -
The Pacific Typographical Society and the California Gold Rush of 1849: A Forgotten Chapter in the History of Typographical Unionism in America by Douglas C McMurtrie 9781633916142
RRP: $17.94Booksplease Price: $15.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781633916142Author Douglas C McMurtrieFormat PaperbackPage Count 28Impri -
A Reading on Article XVI, Section 7, of the Constitution of Pennsylvania: An Address: Before the Law Academy of Philadelphia, March 13th, 1885. by Richard C McMurtrie 9781240073368
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781240073368Author Richard C McMurtrieFormat PaperbackPage Count 26Impri -
The Last Trial by Robert Bailey 9781503953147
Booksplease Price: $20.87Former law professor Tom McMurtrie has brought killers to justice, and taken on some of the most infamous cases in Alabama's history. Now he's tackling his greatest challenge. McMurtrie's old... -
Turning the Pages of Texas by Lonn Taylor 9780875657165
Booksplease Price: $35.69Turning the Pages of Texas is a collection of sixty essays about Texas books, authors, book collectors, libraries, and bookstores. It is a book for booklovers and bookish readers. Lonn Taylor writes... -
The Streets of Laredo: Texas Modernity and Its Discontents by José E. Limón 9781648432705
RRP: $54.58Booksplease Price: $46.78Arguing that the well-known cowboy ballad "The Streets of Laredo" is an early expression of "discontent with an encroaching modernity," author JosE E. LimOn draws upon ethnomusicology, folklore,... -
Dances with Wolves: The American Frontier Epic including The Holy Road by Michael Blake
RRP: $23.38Booksplease Price: $18.82The book that inspired the epic movie, Dances With Wolves, and its sequel, The Holy Road, together in one volume for the first time. 1863. The last occupant of Fort Sedgewick, Lieutenant John... -
The American West and Its Interpreters: Essays on Literary History and Historiography by Richard W. Etulain
RRP: $52.63Booksplease Price: $45.79Distinguished historian Richard W. Etulain brings together a generous selection of essays from his sixty-year career as a specialist on the US West in this essential volume. Each essay provides an... -
Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction: Work from 1970 to the Present by Lex Williford
Booksplease Price: $40.40From memoir to journalism, personal essays to cultural criticism, this indispensable anthology brings together works from all genres of creative nonfiction, with pieces by fifty contemporary writers... -
The Beauty of the Days Gone by Jason Stone 9780802167408
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $34.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802167408Author Jason StoneFormat HardbackPage Count 448Imprint -
Masters of Atlantis by Charles Portis 9781585670215
Booksplease Price: $30.87Lamar Jimmersan, an American doughboy in 1917 France, learns that his life's purpose is to administer the brotherhood of the Gnomons, preservers of the wisdom of the lost city of Atlantis, and... -
Out of Range by C.J. Box 9781837931927
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.61A thrilling read set in the American West from New York Times bestseller C.J. Box, award-winning author of the Joe Pickett and Cassie Dewell series, now adapted into the hit TV shows Joe Pickett and... -
Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $15.50Few novels have caused as much debate as Hubert Selby Jr.'s notorious masterpiece, Last Exit to Brooklyn, and this Penguin Modern Classics edition includes an introduction by Irvine Welsh, author of... -
The Mammoth Book of Westerns by Jon E. Lewis
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.64The Western, though a singularly American art form, is one of the great genres of world literature with a truly global readership. It is also durable despite being often unfairly maligned. Ever since... -
The Collected Stories of Rumpole by John Mortimer
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $20.49Horace Rumpole - witty, eloquent, dishevelled and cynical - is one of fiction's best-loved barristers-at-law. In these twenty classic tales, Rumpole battles through the Old Bailey, whether defending... -
Dark Frontier by Matthew Harffy 9781804548592
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $30.30A thrilling historical western set in 1890s Oregon. An English soldier turned policeman escapes to the American West for a new future, but life on the frontier proves far harder than he ever imagined... -
Between Black and White by Robert Bailey 9781503953079
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $13.10In 1966 in Pulaski, Tennessee, Bocephus Haynes watched in horror as his father was brutally murdered by ten local members of the Ku Klux Klan. As an African American lawyer practicing in the... -
The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $28.02WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ANDREW O'HAGANIn the summer of 1976 Gary Gilmore robbed two men. Then he shot them in cold blood. For those murders Gilmore was sent to languish on Death Row - and could... -
We Who Work the West: Class, Labor, and Space in Western American Literature by Kiara Kharpertian 9781496208842
RRP: $93.60Booksplease Price: $77.81We Who Work the West examines literary representations of class, labor, and space in the American West from 1885 to 2012. Moving from MarIa Amparo Ruiz de Burton's representations of dispossessed... -
A Different Sky by Meira Chand 9780099546245
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $25.66Singapore - a trading post where different lives jostle and mix. It is 1927, and three young people are starting to question whether this inbetween island can ever truly be their home. Mei Lan comes... -
Other Voices, Other Rooms by Truman Capote
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.25When Joel Knox's mother dies, he is sent into the exotic unknown of the Deep South to live with a father he has never seen. But once he gets there, everyone is curiously evasive when Joel asks to see... -
Controversies in Innocence Cases in America by Sarah Lucy Cooper 9781138249110
RRP: $107.23Booksplease Price: $100.60Controversies in Innocence Cases in America brings together leading experts on the investigation, litigation, and scholarly analysis of innocence cases in America, from legal, political and ethical... -
Tall in the Saddle: The Life of Ben Johnson, Hollywood’s Real Cowboy Kathryn Jones 9781496861559
RRP: $54.58Booksplease Price: $45.32Tall in the Saddle: The Life of Ben Johnson, Hollywood's Real Cowboy is the definitive biography of Ben Johnson (1918-1996), the only man to win both an Academy Award and a world rodeo championship... -
The Professor by Robert Bailey 9781503945548
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $13.10Law professor Thomas Jackson McMurtrie literally wrote the book on evidence in the state of Alabama. But when a power-hungry colleague uses a recent run-in between McMurtrie and headstrong student... -
Managing for Resilience: A Practical Guide for Employee Wellbeing and Organizational Performance Monique Crane 9781138124646
RRP: $77.98Booksplease Price: $74.08In an era of longer hours and shorter contracts, of tighter margins and frequent organizational change, stress can undermine both the mental health and performance of employees. A culture of... -
Love at the Five and Dime: The Songwriting Legacy of Nanci Griffith by Brian T. Atkinson 9781648432385
RRP: $54.58Booksplease Price: $47.89Nanci Griffith (1953-2021) remains, despite her untimely death, a "living, breathing, ever-present entity and inspiration." According to author Brian T. Atkinson, reflections on Griffith's... -
The Chisholm Trail: A History of the World's Greatest Cattle Trail by Sam P. Ridings 9781632202666
Booksplease Price: $35.39This frontier classic is one of the best books written about the world's greatest cattle trail, the Chisholm Trail, a trail that was approximately eight hundred miles long, running from San Antonio,... -
Her Majesty the Queen, as Seen by MAC by Mark Bryant
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.43Since the early 1970s, Stan McMurtry - better known as MAC - has been the editorial cartoonist of the Daily Mail. Now, forty-five years after his first cartoon for the newspaper, and in the year of... -
Adventures with a Texas Humanist by James Ward Lee 9780875652887
Booksplease Price: $40.79For the first half of the twentieth century, Texas literature, culture, and folklore were dominated by J. Frank Dobie, the man Lon Tinkle called "Mr. Texas." Dobie's Texas was a land of exuberance... -
Place-Based Spaces for Networked Learning Lucila Carvalho (The University of Sydney, Australia) 9781138850880
RRP: $120.88Booksplease Price: $112.77With the boundaries of place softened and extended by digital communications technologies, learning in a networked society necessitates new distributions of activity across time, space, media, and... -
50 Years of MAC: A Half Century of British Life by Mark Bryant
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.43Political cartoonist MAC started at the Daily Sketch in 1969. At the end of 2018, he will have been capturing British life for 50 years. To mark these five decades working as an editorial cartoonist... -
The Final Reckoning by Robert Bailey 9781503902268
Booksplease Price: $20.96His last challenge: live long enough to save the lives of those he loves. Cold-blooded killer JimBone Wheeler blames Tom McMurtrie for putting him on death row. He once vowed that he'd bring "a... -
One Vast Winter Count: The Native American West before Lewis and Clark by Colin G. Calloway 9780803264656
RRP: $60.45Booksplease Price: $51.91This magnificent, sweeping work traces the histories of the Native peoples of the American West from their arrival thousands of years ago to the early years of the nineteenth century. Emphasizing... -
Generations of Texas Poets by Dave Oliphant
RRP: $38.90Booksplease Price: $29.31Dave Oliphant is widely considered the finest poetry critic ever produced by Texas. This volume brings together some 40 years of essays, articles, and reviews on the topic of Texas poetry-its history... -
South by Southwest: 24 Stories from Modern Texas by Don Graham 9780292776012
RRP: $44.83Booksplease Price: $42.98These Texas stories are among the best produced by the state's writers in the mid-twentieth century. Selected above all for their artistic excellence and their narrative mastery, they also present a... -
We're for Smoke: Outlaws and Outliers of Panther City by Mark Nobles 9780875657868
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $31.32From Hell's Half Acre to Quality Grove, We're for Smoke tells the wild and woolly story of turn-of-the-century Fort Worth, a cow town on the cusp of becoming a modern industrial city.Told through a... -
The Collected Works of Billy the Kid by Michael Ondaatje 9781529945683
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.89Booker prize winning author Michael Ondaatje invites you on a brutal, beautiful journey into the American West. . .At twenty-one years old, Billy the Kid has killed a man for each year he's been... -
One Vast Winter Count: The Native American West before Lewis and Clark by Colin G. Calloway
RRP: $154.05Booksplease Price: $126.59This magnificent, sweeping work traces the histories of the Native peoples of the American West from their arrival thousands of years ago to the early years of the nineteenth century. Emphasizing... -
Resolution by Robert B Parker 9780425227992
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.78Features the main characters first introduced in Appaloosa- now a major motion picture from New Line Cinema. A greedy mine owner threatens the coalition of local ranchers in the town of Resolution,...