Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Lea, Tom. The Brave Bulls Signed. Little Brown & Co (T), 1949.
Price: US$24.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Presentation inscription from author; 7.70 X 5 X 0.70 inches; Signed by Author
Seller: Ann Becker, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Lea, Tom. The Brave Bulls. Little Brown and Company, 1949.
Price: US$33.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Signed, broken hinge, ex-library hardcover with usual stamps and markings - includes dust jacket Standard-sized.
Seller: Midtown Scholar Bookstore, Harrisburg, PA, U.S.A.
Tom Lea (AUTHOR SIGNED). The Brave Bulls. Little, Brown and Company, Boston, MA, 1949.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Little, Brown and Company, Boston, MA. 1949. Hardcover. 9th Reprinting in 1949. Signed by author on the half title verso. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good; light sunning of spine; light bottom edge shelfwear. No DJ. Scarlet colored cloth boards and spine with silver title in black shadowbox; black lettering on spine; matador cape and sword on front board. Matador endpapers. clean interior; hinges sound. 270 pp 8vo. This book is the story of Luis Bello, "The Swordsman of Guerreras", the greatest matador in Mexico, who is at the top of his profession, with everything that comes with it, money, a mistress, family and friends, bravado, the crowds are infatuated with him. But one day fear changes everything, he suddenly feels a fear that previously he had not felt in the invincibility that comes with healthy-macho-youth. A clean very presentable copy.
Seller: Books by White/Walnut Valley Books, Winfield, KS, U.S.A.
Lea, Tom. The Brave Bulls. Little, Brown, Boston, 1949.
Price: US$44.99 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Original pink cloth stamped in black and silver, pictorial endpages. Early reprint. Inscribed to the half title page by Lea. Spotting/foxing to edges and endpages. Tight and square. The DJ in mylar is chipped with some small holes to gutters, small edge tears, mild foxing. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Signed by Author
Seller: curtis paul books, inc., Northridge, CA, U.S.A.
Lea, Tom. The Brave Bulls ----SIGNED----. Little Brown, Boston, 1949.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Signed by Lea on a tipped in leaf. Typical used copy, no jacket. Spine sunned. Front hinge loosening, but not split.
Seller: Craig Hokenson Bookseller, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
Bulls, The Brave. Lea, Tom. Little, Brown and Company, 1949.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Signed by author on page across from title page. First edition. Hard cover published by Little, Brown and Co. in 1949. No DJ. Corners of covers are slightly bumped and covers have some edge wear. Binding is split after front cover, and front endpaper and half title page are loose. Front endpaper has a paper pocket taped in place with Brave Bulls written on it, but this is not an ex-library book. Half title page has name of previous owner at top. Some upper page corners have been bent and creased. Binding is split between back cover and back endpaper.; 8.10 X 5.60 X 1.30 inches; Signed by Author
Seller: Inside the Covers, Lancaster, TX, U.S.A.
Tom Lea. The Brave Bulls. Little, Brown and Company, 1949.
Price: US$70.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Signed. First Edition. First ed, stated. SIGNED by author on page facing title. Minor edge wear/tanning to jacket, in mylar. Pages/boards/jacket clean.
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
Tom Lea. The Brave Bulls [Signed]. Little, Brown and Company, 1949.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Signed on the copyright-facing page by the author. Stated first edition. Pink cloth hardcover with gentle shelf and edge wear. Unclipped jacket with loss and chipping at the spine top and tail, corners, and edges. Hardcover unmarked.
Seller: The BOOKtique, Lake Oswego, OR, U.S.A.
Lea, Tom. THE BRAVE BULLS. Little, Brown & Company, Boston, 1949.
Price: US$90.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 8vo; 270 pages; In a fine slipcase. Signed by Lea on frontispiece to Charles McCombs. ; Signed by Author
Seller: Circle City Books, tucson, AZ, U.S.A.
Lea, Tom. The Brave Bulls ----SIGNED----. Little Brown, Boston, 1949.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Nice book, stated First, signed by Lea on a tipped in leaf. Jacket has shallow chipping at spine ends, other small chips, several tears.
Seller: Craig Hokenson Bookseller, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
Lea, Tom. The Brave Bulls. Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1949.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First novel from El Paso, TX artist and author, Tom Lea. Stated first edition and signed by Lea on verso of half title. Very good with former owner's gift inscription to ffep as well as dedication page. Boards slightly bowed with some foxing to edges of page block. Jacket very good, tanned and with some color transfer to underside. Some rubbing and wear to edges and corners.
Seller: Peruse the Stacks, Gig Harbor, WA, U.S.A.
Lea, Tom. The Brave Bulls. Little, Brown, Boston. Boston, 1949.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Mild dents to extremities of backstrip, no other defects, binding is tight, pages are clean and unmarked. Dust jacket is price-clipped, just the slightest edgewear, now protected by clear mylar sleeve. . Tom Lea was both an artist and a writer, a son of El Paso, in the great state of Texas. He both wrote and wonderfully illustrated this bull-fighting classic novel, which some have said rivals Hemingway's Death in the Afternoon. This novel is the basis of the 1951 film of the same name, starring Mel Ferrer and Anthony Quinn. Directed and produced by Robert Rossen for Columbia Pictures. Beautifully SIGNED BY AUTHOR in black ink, on verso of half title page. Stated first edition, a lovely copy. . 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 270 pages. Signed by Author. A5
Seller: Sweet Beagle Books, Bloomington, IN, U.S.A.
Lea, Tom. The Brave Bulls. Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1949.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Beautifully preserved copy of the first novel from the important Southwest artist and author, Tom Lea. First edition and one of an unknown number of copies with a tipped in sheet signed by Lea. Beautiful full color title page with black and white chapter heading illustrations throughout. Near fine with some tanning to edges of page block, extending into the margins of a few pages near the front. Small spot to bottom corner of front board. Near fine, price-clipped jacket shows some rubbing along joints and at spine ends and corners, else clean and bright.
Seller: Peruse the Stacks, Gig Harbor, WA, U.S.A.
Lea, Tom. The Brave Bulls. Little Brown, Boston, 1949.
Price: US$345.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 270 pages. First Edition, first printing. Illustrated by the author. Known initially as a painter and illustrator, this is his first book. Signed by Lea on a tipped in sheet. This book won the Carr P. Collins Award of the Texas Institute of Letters for best book by a Texan and was previously serialized in the Atlantic Monthly. The story of a Swordsman who deals with violent death while while living his life. Fine book in a fine dust jacket, almost new. A beautiful copy!
Seller: Fireproof Books, MINNETONKA, MN, U.S.A.