Publication: Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1952,
First edition, second printing, with minor corrections. 8vo. Ink inscription on the front free fly leaf "For --- One of 500 copies in cloth and out-of-print for more than 30 years. With the personal regards of the author. Jeff Dykes." Laid-in is a color post card that pictures Billy the Kid. Original red cloth. 186 pp., frontis. (from a sketch by Charles M. Russell), a tentative classification, index. The first attempt at a complete list of materials on The Kid, books, articles, movies, songs, etc. The annotations are excellent. " A model work on a single person," says Lawrence Clark Powell in Southwestern Book Trails. Fine, bright copy.
Inventory Number: 52584