ACE Western Series - ACE Singles

The ACE Doubles and Singles Westerns do not have any published reference information. I have found an obscure ACE publication key list but am finding some errors and other problems, so I will just have to use the classic method of observational data collection to put these pages together. I have consolidated all of the western singles from the ACE POTPOURRI section (except for those I still am not certain about - for example, the E. R. Burroughs "Mucker" and other series). Let me know if you have any images for the ACE westerns (or any of the other genres). Please drop me an e-mail at IronWolf Engine Works.

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ACE SINGLES

S-SERIES

S-060 BRAD WARD (aka SAMUEL ANTHONY PEEPLES) The Marshall Of Medicine Bend (1954; listed as "complete and unabridged")

S-082 LOUIS L'AMOUR Kilkenny (cover by Jim Bentley; 1954; listed as "complete novel")

The Graham Holroyd Paperback Prices and Checklist (2003) volume has this edition of Kilkenny as a PBO. My experience with ACE Books is that the notation of "complete novel" often indcated a reprint edition.

S-148 BRAD WARD (aka SAMUEL ANTHONY PEEPLES) The Man From Andersonville (1956; cover by John Leone; listed as "complete novel")

A-SERIES

A-009 TODHUNTER BALLARD (aka W. T. BALLARD) Gold in California! (1966; 1st thus; historical fiction).

Since this is both historical fiction in a western genre I have cross-listed this both here and in the ACE POTPOURRI section.

K- SERIES

K-247 FRANCES AMES That Callahan Spunk! (1965)

Coyote Wells, Montana in 1908

D- SERIES

D-206 ROBERT HARDY ANDREWS Great Day in the Morning (1957; cover by Verne Tossey; listed as "abridged" edition; 1st thus; historical fiction)

Colorado mining camps

D-206 (back cover; note the use of the 'wrap-around' cover art)

D-296 JOHN CLAGETT Run The River Gauntlet (1958; 1st ACE printing and PBO; historical fiction)

A novel of the American Revolution.

D-395 ALLAN KELLER Thunder At Harper's Ferry (1959; 1st thus; cover by Verne Tossey; historical fiction)

An historical account of John Brown's Raid

D-466 RICHARD O'CONNER Wild Bill Hickok (1st ACE printing 1960; cover by Verne Tossey; listed as "complete and unabridged"; biography)

D-475 BRAD WARD (aka SAMUEL ANTHONY PEEPLES) The Marshal of Medicine Bend (c. 1954; 1960; 2nd printing)

D-494 LESLIE TURNER WHITE Log Jam (1961; listed as "complete and unabridged")

D-570 L. L. FOREMAN Spanish Grant (c. 1962; 1963; listed as "complete and unabridged")

D-572 FRANK WYNNE Arizona Rider (1963; listed as "complete and unabridged")

D-573 STUART BROCK (aka LOUIS TRIMBLE) Whispering Canyon (c. 1956; 1963; cover by John Leone; listed as "complete and unabridged")

Whispering Canyon was originally published in ACE Double D-166 (1956) under the Stuart Brock pseudonym. It was bound with Samuel Anthony Peeples' Terror at Tres Alamos (1956).

D-574 LOUIS L'AMOUR Kilkenny (c. 1954; 1963; 2nd printing?' cover by Jim Bentley; listed as "complete novel")

Kilkenny was originally published as ACE Single S-082 (1954)

D-578 BRIAN WYNNE GARFIELD The Lawbringers (1963)

D-588 MERLE CONSTINER Short-Trigger Man (1964; listed as "first book publication")

Short-Trigger Man was later published in ACE Double 76147 (1972; "Tall Twin Western" edition) bound with Outrage at Bearskin Forks (c. 1966).

D-590 LIN SEARLES Stampede At Hourglass (1964; listed as "first book publication")

Stampede at Hourglass was later published in ACE Double 11181 (1972; "Tall Twin Western" edition) bound with Cliff Rider (c. 1966).

D-592 NELSON NYE Gunslick Mountain (1964)

D-594 LOUIS TRIMBLE The Desperate Deputy of Cougar Hill (1965; listed as "first book publication")

D-597 L. P. HOLMES The Hardest Man in the Sierras (cover by Gerald McConnell; 1965; 1st ACE printing and PBO)

F-SERIES

F-208 L. P. HOLMES Side Me At Sundown (1963)

F-252 JOHN CLIFFORD (aka J. C. BAYLISS) The Shooting Of Storey James (1964)

F-262 CLIFTON ADAMS Reckless Men (1964)

F-268 ALLAN VAUGHAN ELSON Roundup On The Yellowstone (listed as "complete and unabridged")

F-286 JIM BOSWORTH The Long Way North (1964; listed as "complete and unabridged")

F-290 D. B. OLSEN Night of the Bowstring (c. 1954,1st ACE printing)

F-300 BRIAN WYNNE GARFIELD Vultures in the Sun (interior illiustration by Jack Gaughan; c. 1963; 1st thus; listed as "complete and unabridged")

F-302 FRANK WYNNE Dragoon Pass (c. 1963; listed as "complete and unabridged")

F-316 ROBERT McCAIG The Burntwood Men (c. 1963; interior illiustration by Jack Gaughan; listed as "complete and unabridged")

F-316 (back cover)

F-324 BRIAN GARFIELD Apache Canyon (1963; 1st ACE printing)

F-336 ERNEST HAYCOX Sixgun Duo (1965; listed as “first book publication”)

This volume includes novellas The Gun Singer and The Killers. Note that this volume has the same blurb that appears on the later ACE five-digit (76851) volume.

F-340 JOHN L. SHELLEY (with DAVID SHELLEY) The Relentless Rider (1965)

F-348 NELSON NYE Guns of Horse Prairie (listed as "complete and unabridged")

F-351 LOUIS TRIMBLE The Holdout In The Diablos

F-358 WILLIAM VANCE The Wild Riders Of Savage Valley (1965)

F-360 L. L. FOREMAN Rawhiders Of The Brasada (1965; listed as "first book publication")

F-369 SAMUEL ANTHONY PEEPLES The Lobo Horseman (c. 1955; 1965)

The Lobo Horseman was originally published in ACE Double D-98 (1955) bound with Nelson Mye's Texas Tornado (c. 1943).

F-370 BRAD WARD (aka SAMUEL ANTHONY PEEPLES) The Man From Andersonville (c. 1956; 1965; listed as "complete and unabridged")

F-376 LEWIS B. PATTEN The Odds Against Circle L (1966)

F-380 LEE HOFFMAN The Legend Of Blackjack Sam (1966)

F-389 WILLIAM COLT MacDONALD Shoot Him on Sight! (1966; 1st ACE printing)

F-395 NELSON NYE Iron Hand (1966; listed as "first book publication")

F-401 MERLE CONSTINER Outrage At Bearskin Forks (1966; listed as "first book publication")

F-404 CLIFTON ADAMS The Grabhorn Bounty (1965; 1st ACE printing; listed as "complete and unabridged")

F-409 LIN SEARLES Cliff Rider (1966; 1st ACE printing)

Cliff Rider was also published in ACE Double 11181 (1972) bound with Stampede at Hourglass. This volume was one of the "ACE Twin Tall Western" Doubles. Thus, this single is a 1st ACE publication.

F-411 L. L. FOREMAN The Mustang Trail (1966; listed as "complete and unabridged")

F-415 BRIAN WYNNE (aka BRIAN GARFIELD) The Bravos (1966; listed as "first book publication")

F-418 NELSON NYE Single Action ( 1967; listed as "first book publication")

F-423 LEWIS B. PATTEN Giant On Horseback (1967; 1st thus)

F-428 WILLIAM COLT MacDONALD Mascarada Pass (c. 1959; 1967; listed as "complete and unabridged")

G-SERIES

G-480 JOHN BRICK The Strong Men (1960; listed as "abridged"; historical fiction)

G-500 GEORGE D. HENDRICKS The Bad Man of the West (1st ACE printing 1961; listed as "complete and unabridged"; non-fiction)

G-502 RICHARD O'CONNOR Pat Garrett (c. 1960; 1965; an ACE Giant edition; biography)

The story of the famous marshal who killed Billy the Kid

G-502 (back cover)

G-628 CLIFTON ADAMS Shorty (1967; 1st thus; listed as "complete and unabridged")

G-657 NELSON NYE Rider on the Roan (1967; 1st thus)

G-665 L. L. FOREMAN Silver Flame (1967)

G-685 HERBERT PURDUM My Brother John (1966)

G-695 THEODORE V. OLSEN Bitter Grass (1968; there is a hard cover edition of this volume, Doubleday DD western series, have to check the publication date; listed as "complete and unabridged")

G-704 CARSE BOYD Navarro (c. 1962; listed as "complete and unabridged")

G-720 BRIAN WYNNE Brand of the Gun (cover by Victor Prezio; 1968; 1st ACE printing and PBO)

G-741 DEAN OWEN (aka WAYNE D. OVERHOLSER and LEWIS B. PATTEN) Red Is The Valley (1968)

G-746 WILLIAM COLT MacDONALD Marked Deck At Topango Wells (1968; listed as "first book publication")

M-SERIES

M-144 ERNEST HAYCOX Trigger Trio (c.1966; listed as "first book publication")

M-160 NELSON NYE Trail of Lost Skulls (c. 1967; listed as "first book publication")

M-163 RAY HOGAN The Wolver (1967; listed as "first book publication")

FIVE DIGIT NUMERICAL SERIES

04739-4 NELSON NYE Bandido (1977)

04745 EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS The Bandit of Hell's Bend (listed as "first time in paperback")

04755 E. KELTON Barbed Wire (reprint of a Ballantine original western)

08360-9 TOM WEST Bucking for Boot Hill (nd)

08383-8 FRED GROVE The Buffalo Runners (nd)

09031-1 WILLIAM TURNER Call The Beast Thy Brother (1986; 1st thus)

10471 SAM BOWIE (aka W. T. BALLARD) Chisum (c. 1951; 1970; 1st thus; photo cover)

11160 NELSON NYE The Clifton Contract (1st ACE printing January 1972; PBO)

12280 LOUIS L'AMOUR Crossfire Trail (c. 1954)

14194 NELSON NYE Death Valley Slim (c. 1963; nd)

14196-X NELSON NYE Death Valley Slim (c.1963; nd)

Death Valley Slim was previously published in ACE Double F-184 (1963) and ACE Double 14193-5 (nd) with Nelson Nye's The Kid From Lincoln County.

14198 JOHN BICKHAM Decker's Campaign

14240 WAYNE C. LEE Die-Hard

14247 EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS The Deputy Sheriff of Commanche County (c. 1940; nd; cover by Boris Vallejo; this edition is listed as "first paperback publication")

15265-1 ELMER KELTON Donovan (1981; 1st thus)

22725 NELSON NYE Hellbound For Ballarat (1970; 1st ACE printing)

25500-0 ERNEST HAYCOX Frontier Blood (1974; 1st thus)

Includes, in addition to title story, the three novellas The Kid from River Red, Manhunt! and The Roaring Hour.

25730-5 KEN MURRAY Feud in Piney Flats (c. 1953; nd; 1st thus)

Feud in Piney Flats was originally published in ACE Double D-34 (1953) bound with Hellions' Hole.

28811 LEWIS B. PATTEN Giant on Horseback (c. 1967; 1973; 2nd printing)

28911 EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS The Girl From Hollywood (cover by Boris Vallejo; nd; listed as "first time in paperback")

29741 TODHUNTER BALLARD (aka W. T. BALLARD) Gold in California! (c. 1965)

29743 TODHUNTER BALLARD (aka W. T. BALLARD) Gold in California! (c. 1965)

Gold in California! was originally published as ACE A-9 (1965). This is also cross-listed in the ACE POTPOURRI section.

30400-1 NELSON NYE Gringo (nd; may be 1st thus)

30710 GILES A. LUTZ Gun Rich (c. 1962; nd)

Gun Rich was originally published in ACE Double F-172 (1962) bound with Tom West's Battling Buckeroos.

30866-X J. R. ROBERTS The Gunsmith: One-Handed Gun (1982; ACE Charter edition)

This appears to be a series, listed as "the All Action Western Series" published by the ACE Charter line. This is book 11 and the cover art is more Harlequin than ACE Western.

30897-X J. R. ROBERTS The Eagle's Gap (1984; 1st thus)

32470 GILES A. LUTZ The Honyocker (nd)

32575 CHARLES O. LOCKE The Hell Bent Kid

32726-5 NELSON NYE Hellbound for Ballarat (c. 1970; nd)

34337-6 ELMER KELTON Hot Iron (1986; 1st ACE printing)

43790 LOUIS L'AMOUR Kilkenny (c. 1954; later printing)

Kilkenny was originally published as ACE D-574 (1954).

44250 ERIC SMITH A Killer inWhiskey Smith (cover by George Gross; 1971; 1st ACE printing)

44464-4 MATT BRAUN Kinch (1978; 1st thus)

47510 WAYNE C. LEE Law of the Lawless (1977; 1st ACE printing)

47953-7 LEE HOFFMAN The Legend of Blackjack Sam (nd)

48877 GILES A. LUTZ The Lonely Ride

48918 NELSON NYE Long Run (c. 1954; nd)

This story was a "Spur Award" winner for "Best Western Novel."

51642-4 RAY HOGAN The Man From Barranca Negra (c. 1964; nd)

51860-5 KYLE HOLLINGSHEAD The Man on the Blood Bay (1977)

52740 L. P. HOMES The Maverick Star (1969; 1st ACE printing and PBO)

54381-2 MAX BRAND (aka FREDERICK FAUST) Montana Rides! (original title: Montana Rides!; ACE Charter edition; 1981; 1st thus)

The original author notation for this volume was as by EVAN EVANS (yet another pseudonym).

54460 EDGAR RICE BURROUGH The Mucker (cover by Frank Frazetta; 1974; 1st ACE printing)

56025-3 WILL C. BROWN The Nameless Breed (c. 1960; 1977)

56027-X WILL C. BROWN The Nameless Breed (c. 1960; nd)

58603-1 WILLIAM VANCE No Man's Brand (c. 1967; nd)

58604-X WILLIAM VANCE No Man's Brand (c. 1967; nd)

No Man's Brand was originally published in ACE Double G-674 (1967) bound with Merle Constiner's Two Pistols South of Deadwood. It waslater reprinted as ACE Double 58601.

62177-5 FRANK RODERUS Old Kyle's Boy (1985; 1st thus)

62340-9 RAY HOGAN Omaha Crossing (1977)

62730 MATT KINCAID Once An Outlaw (1970)

65102-X RAY HOGAN Panhandle Pistolero (c. 1966; nd; 1st thus)

Panhandle Pistolero was originally published in ACE Double M-136 (1966) bound with The Marshall of Pioche by Nelson Nye.

67131 L. L. FOREMAN Plundering Gun

70352-6 NELSON NYE Rafe (c. 1962; nd; 1st thus)

Rafe ws originally published in ACE Double F-150 (1962) bound with Hideout Mountain.

70390 ERIC ALLEN (aka ERIC ALLEN-BALLARD) Raiders from Whiskey Smith (1972)

70395-X ERIC ALLEN (aka ERIC ALLEN-BALLARD) Rampage in Whiskey Smith (1979; 1st thus)

71076 CLIFTON ADAMS Reckless Men (c. 1964)

Reckless Men was originally published as ACE F-262 (1964).

71420-X GILES A. LUTZ Reprisal! (1976; 1st thus)

71816 EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS The Return Of The Mucker

72280 EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS The Rider (c. 1915; nd; listed as "first time in paperback")

This is another Burroughs volume that is difficult to classify. I place it both in the ACE POTPOURRI and WESTERN sections.

72322-5 LEWIS B. PATTEN Ride the Hot Wind (nd)

72355-1 NORMAN ZOLLINGER Riders to Cibola (nd; thought to be 1st thus)

72740-9 GORDON D. SHIRREFFS Rio Diablo (1977)

73435 L. L. FOREMAN Rogue's Legacy (c. 1968; may be a 1st thus)

73426-X NELSON NYE Rogue's Rendezvous (c. 1965; nd; ACE Charter edition)

Rogue's Rendezvous was previously published in ACE Double 30701-9 (nd), ACE Double 30798-1 (nd), and ACE Double M-112 (1965) bound with Gun Feud At Tiedown.

75617 RAY HOGAN Showdown On Texas Flat

75885-1 CARTER A. VAUGHAN The Seneca Hostage (nd; historical fiction)

75969-6 NELSON NYE The Seven Six-Gunners (c. 1963; nd)

The Seven Six-Gunners was originally published in ACE Double F-224 (1963) and ACE Double 75968 (nd) bound with Bancroft's Banco.

76015 ROBERT McCAIG The Shadow Maker (1970; 1st ACE printing)

76175 RAY HOGAN Showdown on Texas Flat (1972)

76176 RAY HOGAN Showdown on Texas Flat (1972)

76178-X DAN KIRBY Showdown at Cibecue Creek (1979; 1st ACE printing)

76181 JIM MAYO (aka LOUIS L'AMOUR) Showdown at Yellow Butte

76190 LOUIS L'AMOUR Showdown at Yellow Butte (nd)

On this copy, the JIM MAYO pseudonym is mentioned.

76338-3 LOUIS TRIMBLE Siege at High Meadow (c. 1962; 1978; 3rd printing)

Siege at High Meadow was originally published in ACE Double F-128 (1962) bound with Tom West's The Buzzard's Nest (1962).

LOUIS TRIMBLE also writes as STUART BROCK and GERRY TRAVIS.

76761 NELSON NYE Single Action (c. 1967; nd)

Single Action was originally published as ACE F-418 (1967).

76840-7 LEWIS B. PATTEN Six Ways of Dying (nd; thought to be 1st thus)

76851 ERNEST HAYCOX Sixgun Duo (nd; later printing)

Includes the novellas The Gun Singer and The Killers. Although the cover blurb say “two newly discovered short novels,” this volume was originally published in its entirety as ACE F-336 (1965).

77520 WAYNE LEE Son of a Gunman

77918 JAMES POWELL Stage to Seven Springs

77951 LEWIS B. PATTEN The Star and the Gun (nd)

78580 MERLE CONSTINER Steel-Jacket (cover by George Gross; 1st ACE printing 1972)

78830 GILES A. LUTZ The Stranger

78470 ERNEST HAYCOX Starlight and Gunflame (1973; 1st thus)

79805 ROY MANNING Tangled Trail (nd)

80400 NELSON NYE The Texas Gun

80402-0 NELSON NYE The Texas Gun (nd; thought to be 1st thus)

80575 NELSON NYE Thief River

80818 GORDON R. SHIRREFFS Three From the West

Three From the West contains three stories with a single cover. The three stories of this volume are: Rio Desperado (c. 1962), Quicktrigger (c. 1963), and Voice of the Gun (c. 1962).

Rio Desperado and Voice of the Gun were originally published in ACE Double F-152 (1962).

Quicktrigger was originally published in ACE Double F-238 (1963) bound with Stephen Payne's Brand Him Outlaw.

This volume is one of the four (4) ACE Western Triples with single cover that I have found so far.

82085-9 ARTHUR MOORE Track of the Killer (1975)

82170 SAM BOWIE (aka W. T. BALLARD) The Train Robbers (1973, 1st thus; photo cover)

Movie tie-in novel. Novelized from the screenplay by Burt Kennedy. Photo cover illustration features Ann-Margaret and John Wayne.

82401 ERNEST HAYCOX Trigger Trio (c. 1966; later printing)

82409 RAY HOGAN Triple Threat

Triple Threat contains three stories with a single cover. The three stories of this volume are: The Hellsfire Lawman (c. 1968), Legacy of the Slash M (c. 1967), and The Wolver (c. 1967).

Legacy of the Slash M was originally published in ACE Double G-615 (1967) bound with William Vance's Tracker.

This volume is one of the four (4) ACE Western Triples with single cover.

82410 D. B. NEWTON Triple Trouble (1st ACE printing July 1978)

Triple Trouble contains three stories with a single cover and is to my knowledge the only ACE western under Newton's real name. The three stories of this volume are: Rainbow Rider (c. 1978), Panhandle Beef (c.1978), and Guns Buy This Grass (1st ACE printing July 1978).

This volume is one of the four (4) ACE Western Triples with single cover .

82430 NELSON NYE Trouble At Quinn's Crossing

82431 NELSON NYE Trouble At Quinn's Crossing (nd)

83236-9 MAX BRAND (aka FREDERICK FAUST) Twenty Notches

84543-6 ALAN LeMAY The Unforgiven (1980; 1st thus; ACE Charter edition)

84900-8 LOUIS L'AMOUR Utah Blaine (nd)

86140 WILL C. KNOTT The Vengenance Seeker #1 (1975)

86455-4 WAYNE C. LEE The Violent Man (1978; 1st thus)

88010. T. (THEODORE) V. OLSEN Westward They Rode (1976; listed as "first paperback publication")

88011-8 T. (THEODORE) V. OLSEN Westward They Rode (c. 1976; 2nd printing)

88562 BENJAMIN CAPPS The White Man's Road (c. 1969; nd; listed as "first time in paperback"; historical fiction)

Listed as winner of "Western Heritage Award" and "Spur Award" for "Best Western Novel" and "Best Western Historical Novel" (respectively). Originally published by Harper & Row.

89600 NELSON NYE Wolf Trap (1969)

90426 LEE HOFFMAN Gunfight at Laramie

90500-5 JACK ZAVADA The Wolfer (1977)

I am confused. Ray Hogan did The Wolfer (ACE M-163, 1966). It was reprinted a number of times (see ACE 90701 or Triple Threat - ACE 82409). So, why the same title (should these not be at least different in the context that they were published by ACE? If anyone has any insight, I would be interested.

90701 ROBERT J. HOGAN The Wolver

So - this I assume is Ray Hogan's real name? Any AIL user have a copy of this? Let me know.

Last update 28 October 2009

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