Wyatt Earp, Frontier Marshal.

LAKE, STUART N.

Published by Boston, Houghton Mifflin Co., 1931

About this Item

The first state dust jacket has wear and chipping to the top edge of the spine and the front panel, good only. Book has wear and lettering faded, especially on the spine. Previous owner's ink stamps on cloth spine, front and back pastedowns and front and back free endpapers, overall book is good only. This copy is signed by the author, Stuart Lake. First edition. The jacket has $3.50 price intact and the back flap makes reference to the book "Plain Anne Ellis" also published in 1931. This first state jacket is extremely rare. Adams One-Fifty 93. Guns 1270: Often a typographical error will identify a first printing, for the error is usually corrected in the second printing, but the error senventy-five (page 25) appears in all editions as late as 1957, although the earlier error ellby for belly on page 54 was corrected. The book purports to be a biography of Wyatt Earp, recorded at the instigation of his third wife. Many writers and other men who knew Earp personally held him to be utterly unlike the character portrayed by Lake. This book omits all the shady incidents of his life and does everything possible to glorify him. The author tells about many events that happened to other people as though they happened to himself, though he waited until all the real participants were dead to do so. Herd 1300. Dobie/Dykes 33. Dobie p. 141: Best written of all gunmen biographies. Earp happened to be on the side of the law. Arizona 100 #57.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Wyatt Earp, Frontier Marshal.
• Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin Co.
• Publication Date: 1931
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)