Wilbert E Eisele (5 results)

Cloth. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No dust jacket. Collector's Edition. 8vo. 364pp. Red Cloth. First Edition. Collector's Edition. Vignette of Hickok, gun ablazing, on the front cover. Two small light stains on rear cover. llustrated with full-page black and white drawings. A binding error affects first two pages, otherwise pages are crisp and clean. Much of this "true story" has been disputed by historians. See Adams-Six-Guns 668 (page long article). First Edition. Red Cloth. Light Edge Wear.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition. 8vo. Original red pictorial cloth replicating the dust jacket design. Dust jacket (clipped, short tears, light soiling). Six Guns 668-citing his many sources as "unreliable". Very good. 364 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 364 pp., illustrations. Unmarked with no writing or book plates. A PRISTINE fine, unread, tight copy in a fine bright, unclipped dust jacket. This is the stated Collector's Edition. The finest we have seen of this book! Interesting reading from one of the earlier books on the life of Wild Bill. Six-Guns #668, Rader#1289. EXCEPTIONAL CONDITION! COLLECTOR QUALITY.

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. Few small open tears. Chipping at spine crown/heel. A look at the life of Wild Bill Hickok. Collector's Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Octavo, original red pictorial cloth, original dust jacket. First edition of Eisele's biography of the frontiersman, gunfighter, lawman and scout "Wild Bill" Hickok, with line engraved frontispiece portrait of Hickok, photographic portrait of the author, and ten wood-engraved illustrations, in the scarce original dust jacket."The event that brought Hickok both fame and notoriety and earned him his nickname was the killing of David McCanles at Rock Creek, Nebraska, in 1861 A dramatized recounting of McCanles's death written by George Ward Nichols appeared in an 1867 issue of Harper's Weekly. This story catapulted Wild Bill Hickok into the national limelight and made him the central figure of many dime novels" (ANB). Eisele's hagiography pushes Nichols' account even further into the fantastic, incorporating similar exaggerated accounts by J.W. Buel and Buffalo Bill in his 1879 Autobiography. Eisele's biography is nonetheless an entertaining account, and representative of 20th-century myth-making portraits of the "Old West" of the previous century. With "Collector's Edition" on copyright page, as called for by Adams. Adams, Six-Guns and Saddle Leather 668. Owner book label. Two black-and-white photographic prints of Colt's "Navy" revolver laid in (one mounted). Book clean and fine in the dust jacket with a small, closed tear to spine. A lovely copy.