Friends of the East Providence Public Library COLLECTORS’ CORNER #3 – COWBOYS & WESTERNS You will find here books that have been selected by Friends as special or collectible from among those donated. As with our seasonal sales and never-ending book sale, all proceeds benefit the East Providence Public Library. To make arrangements to see or purchase a book from the collection or to request photos, call 401-433-3463 or email [email protected]. Include a name and phone number to contact. A Complete Filmography: Wild Bill Elliott. Gene Blottner. NC: McFarland & Co., 2007. First ed. Price: $10 Alan “Rocky” Lane: Republic’s Action Ace. Chuck Thornton & David Rothel. NC: Empire Publ., 1990. First printing. A photo biography of a great athlete and one of the screen’s greatest western stars. 181 pp. In mylar. Price: $5 Back in the Saddle: Essays on Western Film & Television Actors. Gary Yoggy, ed. NC: McFarland, 1998. “Expert analysis of performances of some of Hollywood’s leading stars.” Price: $5 Bad at the Bijou. William R. Horner. NC: McFarland & Co., Publ., 2000. Ten western actors talk about their backgrounds, families and playing bad guys. 185 pp. Price: $5 Bobby Copeland’s B-Western Boot Hill: A Final Tribute to the Cowboys & Cowgirls Who Rode the Saturday Matinee Movie Range. NC: Empire Publ., 1999. Actual obituaries of 100s of B-Western stars and listings of burial locations. 216 pp. Price: $5 Brothers of the West: The Lives & Films of Robert Livingston & Jack Randall. Merill T. McCord. MD: Alhambra Publ., 2003. Price: $5 Cowboy Movies. Norman Richards. NY: Gallery Books, 1984. Greatest films, directors, stars. Price: $10 Don Miller’s Hollywood Corral: A Comprehensive B-Western Roundup. Foreward by Gene Autry. Afterward by Roy Rogers. TX: Riverwood Press, 1993. Celebrates the movie cowboys of yesteryear. Price: $10 From Pigskin to Saddle Leather: The Films of Johnny Mack Brown. John Rutherford. NC: The World of Yesterday, 1996. First printing. Photos on every page. 212 pp. Price: $10 Gabby Hayes: King of the Cowboy Comics. Bobby J. Copeland & Richard Smith III. First ed. NC: Empire Publ., 2008. Soft cover. Price: $20 Heroes, Heavies & Sagebrush: A Pictorial History of the B-Western Players. Arthur F. McClure & Ken D. Jones. NY: A.S. Barnes & Co., 1972. Nostalgic glimpse of a significant aspect of the western movie fare. Price: $5 Hoppy. Hank Williams. Dated and signed by author. FL: Sweetwater Press, 2003. First ed. Price: $10 Johnny Mack Brown: Up Close & Personal. Bobby J. Copeland. NC: Empire Publ., 2005. First ed. Soft cover. Football, film and reallife experiences of western film star. 156 pp. Price: $5 Lash LaRue: King of the Bullwhip. Chuck Thornton & David Rothel. NC: Empire Publ., Inc., 2003. An exploration of this cowboy as a puzzling, show business phenomenon. Price: 10 Last of the Robbers Roost Outlaws: Moab’s Bill Tibbetts. Tom McCourt. UT: Canyonlands Natural History Assoc., 2010. Nostalgic read of hard times in the old west, Price: $5 Roy Rogers: King of the Singing Cowboys. Morris Pollard. Singing Cowboy Stars: The Guys, The Gals, The Sidekicks. Robert Phillips. First ed. UT: Gibbs-Smith, Publ., 1994. In mylar. The definitive singing cowboy reference book. With CD of hits sung by original artists. Price: $10 Tex Ritter – America’s Most Beloved Cowboy. Bill O’Neal. Texax: Eakin Press, 1998. Soft cover. First ed. 157 pp. Price: $5 The Adventures of the Durango Kid, Starring Charles Starret. R.C. Carman, 1983. Bob Carman & Dan Scapperotti. Soft cover. 176 pp. Price: $5 The Complete Films of John Wayne. Mark Ricci. NJ: Citadel Press, 1983. In mylar. Price: $5 The Films of Bob Steele. Bob Nareau, ed. AZ: Robert Nareau. Soft cover. Price: $5 The Films of the Cisco Kid. Francis Nevins. NC: The World of Yesterday, 1998. First printing. Price: $5 The Films of Hopalong Cassidy. Francis M. Nevins. NC: World of Yesteryear, 1998. 324 pp. Price: $5 The Great Cowboy Stars of Movies and Television. Lee O. Miller. NY: Arlington House Publ., 1979. Price: $5 The Life & Films of Buck Jones: The Silent Era. Buck Rainey. NC: The World of Yesterday, 1988. First printing. Price: $5 The Life & Films of Buck Jones: The Sound Era. Buck Rainey. NC: The World of Yesterday, 1991. First printing. Price: $10 The Singing Cowboys. David Rothel. NJ: A.S. Barnes & Co., 1978. In mylar. In-depth career profiles and discography of recordings. Price: $5 The Tom Mix Book. M.G. Bud Norris. NC: The World of Yesterday, 1989. First printing. Soft cover. Price: $5 The Western: The Complete Film Sourcebook. Phil Hardy. NY: William Morrow & Co., 1983. First ed. More than 1,800 entries of plot summaries of westerns of the 30s to the 80s. In mylar. Price: $5 They Went Thataway: A Front Row Kid’s Search for His Boyhood Heroes. James Horowitz. Old-time Hollywood cowboys. NY: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1976. In mylar. First ed. Price: $5 Those Great Cowboy Sidekicks. David Rothel. NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1984. First ed. 325 pp. In-depth examination of Gabby Hayes, Andy Devine, Slim Pickens, Pat Brady & others, Price: $5 Those Wide Open Spaces. Hank Williams. FL: Hole in the Wall Press, 2000. First ed. 109 pp. A look of some of the great B-westerns, their horses and sidekicks, 285 photos, Price: $5 Tim Holt. David Rothel. NC: Empire Publ., 1994. First ed. Price: $5 Tim McCoy: A Real Rough Rider. Bobby Copeland & Bill Russell. C/R Production,1999. Signed by author. Soft cover. Price: $5 Tom Mix. Paul Mix. NC: McFarland & Co., 1995. Price: $5 Tom Mix: Riding Up to Glory. John Nicholas. OK: Persimman Hill Publ., National Cowboy Hall of Fame, 1980. First ed. Biography of the skilled horseman and early western movie hero, Price: $5 Western Film Series of the Sound Era. Michael R. Pitts. NC: McFarland & Co., 2009. First ed. Covers 30 western film series 1930s to early 1950s. Price: $5 Western Women. Boyd Magers & Michael Fitzgerald. NC: McFarland & Co., 1999. Interviews with 50 leading ladies from the 1930s to the 1960s, 274 pp. Price: $25 Written & Produced & Directed: 50 Years with Hollywood’s Great Western Heroes & Other Stars, An Autobiography. Oliver Drake. MS: The Outlaw Press, 1990. First ed. Soft cover. Price: $20 .