Publication: Mangan Books, 1996, El Paso
First edition. #33 of the Deluxe Edition limited to 50 Numbered and Signed copies. Quarter Leather and Cloth binding with raised bands and titles stamped in gilt on the spine. Housed in the original matching blue cloth slipcase. Maps on front end-papers, xiv, 337 pp.. Numerous Illustrations. Foreword. Prologue. Afterword. Acknowledgments. Appendices. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Excellent biography of Texas gunfighter, John Wesley Hardin, 1853-1895. This limited edition copy features facsimiles of three items from the Robert G. McCubbin collection. Specifically a photograph of Hardin, tipped-in as the frontispiece, Hardin's bar bill affixed to the rear pastedown sheet, and a playing card, shot through three times, housed in a pocket affixed to the rear endpaper, as issued. As New, in slipcase with a few small, marks on bottom and edge of spine.
Inventory Number: 53162