Shanghai Pierce: A Fair Likeness

CHRIS EMMETT

Publication: University of Oklahoma Press, 1953, Norman

First edition. 8vo. Signed by the author. Cloth, xiii, 236pp., 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." Fine, unread copy in dust jacket. This is as fine a copy of this title as we handled in years. An exceptional copy. Pulitzer Prize-winner A.B. Guthrie's copy with his signature. Large 8vo. 326 pp. Index, Bibliography. Photographic plates; maps; illustrations. Brown cloth in publishers illustrated dustjacket; housed in a custom quarter leather and brown cloth clamshell case with raised bands and titles in gilt lettering on the spine. Two small marks on front free endpaper, possibly from a label or clipping removal, else a fine copy in dust jacket with minor wear to the spine ends and extremities. "You can't go far in cattle-country reading without cutting the trail of that flamboyant and engaging personality, Shanghai Pierce. part rascal, part gentleman, part poseur, part just himself, he was all color. Strangely enough, no full-length treatment of him has been done till now. But now it has been done, and done faithfully, painstakingly, with attention to a great number and variety of clues to character. It is a welcome addition to the literature of Texas and the range." - A. B. Guthrie, Jr. (dust jacket) (Herd #764, Reese #120, Six Guns #678, Six Score #38)

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