Shanghai Pierce: A Fair Likeness.

CHRIS EMMETT

Publication: University of Oklahoma Press, 1953, Norman

First edition. 8vo. Inscribed by the author on the front free fly leaf: "For G. G. and Ardis Reiwalt - My good friends, ever; who were most helpful when 'Shanghai' was 'growing up.' Chris Emmett." Cloth, xiii, 236 pp., illustrated, plates, portraits, maps, appendix, bibliography, index. Drawings by Nick Eggenhofer. Six Score 38 says, "Pierce was a grand original, the first cattle king of Texas. His business dealings were vast, varied, and interesting." Six Guns 678 says, "There is some material on the Taylor-Sutton feud and on John Wesley Hardin, Jack Helm, Ben Thompson, Wild Bill Hickok, and other gunmen." Light evidence of a small label removal from the front pastedown sheet and the half title page, else a fine, tight copy in dust jacket very lightly sunned on the spine. An exceptional copy.

Inventory Number: 53048