In The Shadow Of Jesse James

JAMES, STELLA F. [EDITED BY MILTON F. PERRY]

Publication: Published by The Revolver Press, A Division of Dragon Books, 1990, Thousand Oaks, California

First edition. 8vo. De Luxe edition, specially bound in quarter leather and marbled paper over boards, all edges gilt, and with a small banner on the copyright page that states "One of an Edition of Twenty." Inked signature of Milton F. Perry on the title page. Marbled front and rear endpapers, frontispiece [portrait of Stella Frances James (1882-1971)], [10], vii [blank], 142 pp., preface, introduction, illustrated from photographs, portraits, appendix. Written by Stella James, the wife of Jesse James, Jr., the volume draws upon Stella's decades of firsthand contact with the James family and preserves family reminiscences, photographs, portraits, and accounts of individuals and events surrounding the Jesse James legend. Particularly noteworthy is Stella's account of her confrontation with John James, one of several men who claimed that Jesse James survived the 1882 shooting. As new, unread copy without dust jacket, as issued.