MIDNIGHT AND NOONDAY by Freeman, George D - 1892

Caldwell, KS: G. D. Freeman. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1892. Second Edition. Hardcover. Red blindstamped cloth. 2nd edition. Corners bumped, cloth mildly soiled, spine faded and softened, spine gilt faded. Front inner hinge crudely taped. Pages toned. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 406 pages .

G. D. Freeman, 1892. 2nd Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Light wear to covers, a very good copy. Second edition. The first edition is exceedingly rare and the second is at least rare. Guns 763: "Reprinted in 1892, bound in cloth and with the same text but with the addition of a certificate, signed by seven old-time pioneers attesting to the truth of the narrative, which appears on page 406.The second printing is bound in red cloth, and the first edition is so rare that some collectors think that the 1892 edition was the only one published. The book contains much material on the gunmen and their gun battle in Caldwell, and tells of the Medicine Lodge bank robbery by Henry Brown and Ben Wheeler." Adams One-Fifty 56. Six Score 39: "An extremely rare history of Caldwell during this vital period, when it was an important cattle town, and a first hand account of one of the roughest of the shipping terminals.All editions are rare." Herd 843. Dobie p. 121. Howes F353. Graff… Read More

Caldwell, 1892. 406pp. plus frontispiece portrait and plates. Original cloth, boards blind stamped, spine gilt. Hinges cracked, cloth somewhat dust and damp soiled, corners and spine ends worn. Light tanning. Good plus. The second edition, after the first of 1890 which Adams describes as "exceedingly rare...the first edition is so scarce that some collectors think the 1892 edition the only one published." The present edition contains an attestation of veracity by seven old-timers not included in the first edition. "Midnight - the period of outlawry, lynch law and Indian warfare - endures for 393 pages; while but 13 pages suffice to tell the sad tale of the dawn's coming" - Eberstadt. Includes much material on the Talbot raid on Caldwell, and the bank robbers Henry Brown and Ben Wheeler. ADAMS HERD 843. ADAMS SIX-GUNS 383. REESE, SIX SCORE 39. HOWES F353. RADER 1472. EBERSTADT 114:316. REESE, BEST OF THE WEST 205 (ref).