Max Brand. Five Star, $25.95 (224p) ISBN 978-1-4328-2523-2
These three reissued short novellas from the popular and wildly prolific Brand (real name Frederick Faust, 1892–1944) are classic examples of his carefully plotted, suspenseful, and action-packed horse operas. In “The Lion’s Share” (1928), outlaw...
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Max Brand, Author, Jon Tuska, Editor University of Nebraska Press $40 (193p) ISBN 978-0-8032-1263-3
Our classic images of the cowboy, the gambler, the outlaw and other icons of the Old West come in large measure from the hundreds of western yarns that Brand (a pseudonym of Frederick Faust) sold to the pulps in the early half of this century. Here,
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Max Brand, Author, Jon Tuska, Editor University of Nebraska Press $30 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8032-1265-7
Like the four Brand tales in The Black Rider and Other Stories (which features an identical foreword and is reviewed above), the four short novels in this anthology are now appearing outside of pulp publication for the first time. Brand's stories...
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Max Brand, Author, Robert Easton, Editor, Jane Easton, Editor University of Nebraska Press $50 (346p) ISBN 978-0-8032-1244-2
Brand (the pen name of Frederick Schiller Faust) was one of the most prolific and protean pulp writers of the century. (Born in 1892, he was killed while serving as a war correspondent in Italy during WWII). Though best known for his westerns, Brand
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Max Brand, Author, Edgar L. Chapman, Introduction by University of Nebraska Press $40 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8032-1269-5
Originally published in 1927-28, this is the first of four novelettes in Brand's Thunder Moon series. Brand (1892-1944), a pseudonym of Frederick Faust, captures the spirit and pride of the Cheyenne Indians on the Great Plains in this story of a...
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Cindy Procter-King. Five Star, $25.95 (242p) ISBN 978-1-4328-2545-4
Procter-King’s characters struggle to overcome old heartaches and forge a new future in this contemporary romance set in British Columbia. Shoe buyer Jess Morgan returns to her hometown of Destiny Falls after her stepfather’s death. At first, Jess...
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Max Brand. Five Star, $25.95 (290p) ISBN 978-1-4328-2711-3
Max Brand is the pseudonym of Frederick Faust (1892–1944), who wrote more than 300 westerns. Five Star has republished 66 of Brand’s westerns, including this excellent novel, which first appeared as a three-part magazine serial in 1925. Sammy Gregg...
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