RECOLLECTIONS OF A ROGUE

First Impression. Octavo (24cm); red cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; xxii,301,[1] + [16]pp of inserted color plates. Faint musty odor, some offsetting to endpapers, with just a hint of foxing to text edges; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced 35/- net), lightly edgeworn, with a few tiny tears, and some very faint foxing on verso; Near Fine. The memoirs of American soldier of fortune and amateur painter Samuel Emery Chamberlain (1829-1908), whose exploits throughout the American Southwest and Mexico during the mid-19th century, both during the Mexican-American War and later with the infamous Glanton Gang, became key primary source material for Cormac McCarthy's fifth novel, Blood Meridian. "Now brought to light after more than one hundred years, this unique document will surely excite nation-wide interest and delight as a classic of picaresque adventure. The manuscript has been checked and rechecked by experts for accuracy and authenticity. Less than one-fifth of the book appeared in Life in three installments in July and August, 1956" (from rear flap). The UK edition contains a foreword by D.W. Brogan that does not appear in the American edition. 9029.…