first edition
1927 · Boston
by Siringo, Charles A.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1927. First Edition. First printing Very good- in brown cloth covered boards with dark brown text on the spine and front board. With rubbing to the cloth at the head and heel of the spine and with a 1/3" and a 1" coffee (?) splatter on the front board and with a prior owner's name at the upper edge of the first free end paper. There is a separation after the fly title page making the binding a bit shaken; but, there are no missing or loose pages. Without its issued dust jacket. 276 pages of text and illustrated with 21 black and white photographs. This is the original first edition of the title with the pages regarding the Pinkerton Agency which were suppressed by court action in the year of publication. (6Guns 2030) Howes considers this printing to be "quite scarce". (Howes S517) (Inventory #: TB19423)