Pistols at Ten Paces; The Code of Honor in America

Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, MA. 1940. Hardcover. First Edition (matching title date and copyright date). Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Good; bumped; overall age soiling; sunfaded spine; blue browning to pastedowns. No DJ. orange cloth boards and spine with black lettering on spine and front board. 292 pp 8vo. Men have always yearned to slay each other for spite in any way that was convenient until the Age of Chivalry when "judicial combat" was introduced making the act of two Christian gentleman trying to murder each other respectable. originally a French and British item, the act of dueling in America flourished as nowhere else in the civilized world. A clean.