John Wesley Hardin. Dark Angel Of Texas.

LEON METZ

Publication: Mangan Books, 1996, El Paso

First edition. Copy number 2 of and edition limited to 50 numbered and signed copies. As new, unread copy in two-tone quarter leather and cloth binding with raided 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.

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