Published by H.L. Gordon, Los Angeles, 1912
Seller: sonalsorises, Los angeles, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Good Plus. First Edition. First Edition (no other editions listed). Original wrappers (there may have been covers, but they are now gone. Stitching along the spine suggests this item was removed either from a book or other publication. This is a 5 page poem, dated March 22-30, 1912. Very scarce as we could locate no other copies for sale.
Published by R.Y. McBride; Los Angeles; nc/nd (ca.1908); 81 pp.; Wraps; Good, 1908
Seller: Watermark West Rare Books, Wichita, KS, U.S.A.
Soft cover. Condition: Good. Mr Gordon is identified as Bronco Bill only through WorldCat. _____ He describes himself here as a former Corporal of Company Q of the Rough Riders._____ That said, none of the Rough Rider rosters available online showed any William Gordon._____ Genuinely awful "cowboy" poetry, written in execrable dialect and rhymes._____ Subjects include Teddy Roosevelt, James J Hill. the War in Cuba and apparently a whole raft of Minneapolis judges._____ All with racist and jingoistic slurs of the worst sort. _____ The covers are rather soiled and there is a damp line to the lower forecorner of the last five leaves._____.