LAW AND ORDER, LTD. THE ROUSING LIFE OF ELFEGO BACA OF NEW MEXICO by Crichton, Kyle S - 1928

Santa Fe, NM: New Mexican Publishing Corporation. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1928. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo; 219 pages; Private library blindstamp on front free endpaper. Price clipped dust jacket with light soiling, rubbing and wear. Howes C886, Adams 150 & Guns 511. .

Santa Fe, NM: New Mexican Publishing Corporation. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1928. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo; 219 pages; Small scrape lower rear cover of the dust jacket. Howes C886, Adams 150 & Guns 511. .

Santa Fe: New Mexican Publishing, 1928. F . Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. Very good copy in chipped dust jacket. The limitation stamp is present but no signatures as promised. Variant first limited edition. Adams One-Fifty 36. Guns 511: "The first book devoted entirely to this noted gunman, it includes much information about the now famous fight at Frisco, New Mexico, his association with Billy the Kid, and two chapters on Joel Fowler. Some of the stories about Billy the Kid have been heretofore untold." Howes C886.

Santa Fe: New Mexican Publishing Corporation, 1928., 1928. First edition. First edition. 8vo. Inked presentation inscription on the front pastedown sheet: "Attorney Charles T. Mahoney, work faithfully for 8 hours a day and don't worry; then in time you may become judge and work 16 hours a day and have all the worry. Elfego Baca." A second inked inscription appears on the front free fly leaf, "Albuquerque N. M., August 2, 1937, To my dear friend Charles J. Mahoney. Elfago Baca, 523 W. Gold Ave., Albuquerque, New Mexico." Original brown cloth with titles in red lettering on front cover and spine, viii, 219 pp., foreword, illustrated, portraits. Six Guns 511 says, "Scarce" and "The first book devoted entirely to this noted gunman, it includes much information about the now famous fight at Frisco, New Mexico, his association with Billy the Kid, and two chapters on Joel Fowler." "Eugene Manlove Rhodes wrote of Baca "his willingness to discuss any moot… Read More