Ball Eve Editor (3 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 72 pp. Edge and corner wear with a name in pencil on the right side of the front cover and a date stamp on the upper left of the front cover. Rattlesnake cover art by Gene Shortridge. This issue contains: Truly Western; Our Ghost Towns Today by Kenneth Roe; Ghost Camp by J. Michael Jenkinson; Sam's Youngest Boy by Frank X. Tolbert; The White Invader by Tom Bailey; Ornery and Low Down by James E. Harvey; Nana's People by James Kaywaykla as told to Eve Ball; Vacation for Gold by E. V. Reyner; Rainbow Cattle by Glenn R. Vernam; The Long Rio Grande by W. D. Smither; Guns of the Old West: Henry Rifle by Norman B. Wiltsey; Lucky Baldwin by E. C. Barney; Some People I Knew at the Crossroads by John W. DeVine; They Still Remember Jennie by Mike Clifford; Wild Old Days; The Colorful Horse Thief by Emily H. Lewis; I Trailed Black Jack Ketchum by Richard W. Sturges; Treasure Island by William Mahan; and Ambush on the Coquille by Orpha Collins; along with the usual features. Size: 4to. Gene Shortridge; (illustrator). Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition. Edited by Eve Ball. Octavo. 9¼ x 6 inches. vi, [2], 336pp. 7 illustrations from photographs. Index. Brick cloth lettered in gilt. A fine copy in pictorial dust jacket. Jacket with the slightest of wear along top edge. Becoming quite scarce. Lily Klasner grew up alongside outlaws and Indians and could hold her own among them. She took leadership of the family when she was only 13 years old, after her father was murdered. She became a great rider, shooter, and could handle any "man's job" In later years she became a school teacher and telegrapher. She kept a meticulous diary, aided with newspaper clippings, letters, photographs, and documents, and created an autobiographical manuscript of her experiences as a woman in the West. This manuscript was discovered in an old trunk in an abandoned house in 1968, and author Eve Ball undertook the task of editing and annotating this manuscript, resulting in this book. Also includes the personal diary of John Chisum "Cattle King of the Pecos", who was an intimate friend and counselor of Klasner and her family. Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine. First Edition; First Printing. 8vo; 336 pages; Minor edgewear to the dust jacket.