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TALES OF THE DRAGOMAN

Here are the stories of Hamad the Attar, the man who limped, the Dragoman. Here is the complete seven story series as originally published in ORIENTAL STORIES and CARPET MAGIC MAGAZINE, retypeset with the original illustrations. The fifth entry in the series was co-written by E. Hoffman Price.

Hardcover w/dust jacket:
6 x 9 inch
198 pages
$29.95
ISBN 978-1987074635

Trade Paperback:
6 x 9 inch
198 pages
$14.95
ISBN 9781987074628

SIMON BOLIVAR GRIMES, OUTLAW

He had a coffin-shaped face, and like the thoroughbred he rode, his legs were long; but while the horse was graceful as a panther, the rider was gangling, slightly stooped, and his oversized hands did not know what to do with themselves when he dismounted at the hitching rack in front of Squint Eye Morgan’s Sabine Palace, a dive so named because of its proximity to the river which separates Texas and Louisiana. A .45 single action Colt was awkwardly strapped to his thigh, and its owner looked as though he must have picked a lucky day for his very recent first shave, otherwise he would have cut his own throat; yet somehow, he did not stumble over the hand-hewn planks as he strode to the bar. Squint Eye Morgan winked broadly when the boy piped, “Whiskey, if yo’ please, suh.” Then, voice suddenly going bass, he boomed like a yearling bull, “I’m Simon Bolivar Grimes, suh, lookin’ fo’ my uncle’s ranch in Crockett County in the next day or two.”

And that is our introduction to Simon Bolivar Grimes, E. Hoffman Price's answer to Robert E. Howard's Breckenridge Elkins. While both Mountain Men were able to get themselves into a whole peck of trouble, Price's Grimes also had the ladies to take care of, in the Spicy manner! This collection of 13 stories include 11 from Spicy Western Stories, and one each from Speed Western Stories and Fighting Western. Each story is fully illustrated with the original pulp magazine's artwork.

276 pages
Large sized paperback isbn ISBN 978-1987072594

SIMON BOLIVAR GRIMES

This wild and wacky western series starring Simon Bolivar Grimes, a young man from Georgia, relates his adventures in Texas with the law, outlaws, and women. Funny in the Breckenridge Elkins vain, and Price paid homage to his friend, Robert E. Howard, in creating this series after Howard's death in 1936. This first collection contains the first six stories in the series and all are from Spicy Western. Illustrated.

184 pages

THE RETURN OF SIMON BOLIVAR GRIMES

A second collection of risque western stories starring Simon Bolivar Grimes. Included are: "Hoodoo Town", "Salt Crazy", "Forbidden Food", "She Herded Him Around", "Champion of Broken Axe", and "Drink or Draw". Fully illustrated with the original artwork which graced Spicy Western and Speed Western pulp magazines.

214 pages

COSMOS

A seventeen chapter round-robin serial written by eighteen science fiction authors: Ralph Milne Farley, David H. Keller, M.D., Arthur J. Burks, Bob Olsen, Francis Flagg, John W. Campbell, Rae Winters (Raymond A. Palmer), Otis Adelbert Kline, E. Hoffman Price, Abner J. Gelula, Raymond A. Palmer, A. Merritt, J. Harvey Haggard, Edward E. Smith, Ph.D., P. Schuyler Miller, L. A. Eshbach, Eando Binder, Edmond Hamilton.

An evil hitlerish dictator of one of the planets of Alpha Centauri, unsatisfied with ruling one planet, must spread out and subjugate others. He knows none to conquer in his own system--they are all either uninhabitable or invincible. So he casts his evil eyes on the solar system. This dog's name incidentally is Ay-Artz.

There exist saviors on Lemnis, Ay-Artz's home planet. They are Dos-Tev, rightful heir to the throne of Lemnis who was bounced out by the rebellious Ay-Artz, his scientist friend and mentor Mea-Quin, and their servant-warrior-errand-boy Bullo. Hearing of Ay-Artz's evil designs they determine to warn to solarites and help defeat Ay-Artz once and for all. Their struggle to inform the various solar planets' peoples of Ay-Artz's designs, the struggles of the people of Sol to defeat Ay-Artz and to defend their planets against him, forms the general run of the "novel's" progress. Eventually, of course, Ay-Artz is defeated--in the final installment, written by old universe-wrecker Edmond Hamilton.

Hardcover w/dust jacket:
6 x 9 inch
336 pages
$29.95
ISBN 978-1987076370

Trade Paperback:
6 x 9 inch
336 pages
$15.95
ISBN 978-1987069518