The Ben Lilly Legend.

J. FRANK DOBIE

Publication: Little, Brown and Company, 1950, Boston

First edition. 8vo. Signed by Dobie on a special tipped-in sheet, bound in by the publisher. Neither McVicker nor Cook describe this edition. Decorated cloth, xv [3], 237 pp., frontispiece, "Esau the Hunter," illustrated, sources, index. Classic account of legendary Texas hunter and woodsman Ben Lilly, emphasizing his extraordinary career as a big-game hunter, tracker, trapper, and wilderness guide in Texas and the Southwest. Particularly notable for Lilly's celebrated pursuit of mountain lions, as well as his hunting of bear and deer. J. Frank Dobie met Lilly and was so struck by this extraordinary man that he collected everything he could find about him. Here are the stories Ben Lilly told and a great many more Frank Dobie heard about him. Dobie recounts Lilly's remarkable knowledge of the wilderness, tracking abilities, use of hunting dogs, and experiences in the remote mountains and forests of Texas and New Mexico. Former owner's inked name and date and bookplate on front pastedown sheet else a near fine copy in price-clipped, bright dust jacket with light wear to spine ends and corners and tiny nicks and chips to bottom edge of front cover.