Scarce book: An Oregon Crusader, by George S. Turnbull

Copyright 1955, 246+ pages. Illustrated: b/w photos. "This is an enlargement of the first edition of An Oregon Editor's Battle for Freedom of the Press (1952), which dealt with ...George Putnam's fight, in Medford in 1907-08, with an arrogant group of county politicians and a... circuit judge who ignored the spirit of the Bill of Rights and the plain mandate of the Oregon statute. The two additional sections deal with Mr. Putnam's crusades in Salem - one against the Ku Klux Klan...and the other against lawless forces controlling some of the Oregon labor unions...".

At last peek, there were 13 copies at abebooks, ranging from $7.20 to $135; 12 copies at bn.com, ranging from $7.62 to $141.75; 11 copies at alibris.com, ranging from $7.95 up to $135; 10 copies at biblio.com, ranging from $10 to $135; and amazon.com seems to have a glitch because they say that both An Oregon Crusader and the earlier An Oregon Editor’s Battle for Freedom of the Press are out of stock. This is a problem. My copy, at least, should be listed. (What was I saying the other day about not daring to have all your eggs in one basket when making a living selling books on the Internet?)

Fellow professional booksellers, feel free to use the comments section of this posting to educate people about a scarce book or two in your inventory. What I’m looking for are descriptions that let people know what the book is about, not your ideas about how ‘collectible’ the book might be. The idea is to have something useful left over long after your copy is sold and shipped. Nothing rasty, thanks, both in terms of content and condition.