Wyatt Earp. Frontier Marshal

An exceptional copy, both book and rare first state dust jacket are in fine condition. 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. Ultra rare to be in this condition in the first state. As a bonus, included with this book is a first edition of "Plain Anne" in a dust jacket also. 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.