first edition Hardcover
1936 · Kingsport TN
by McDANIEL, Ruel
Kingsport TN: Southern Publishers, 1936. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Fine in fine pictorial dustwrapper, along with a fine example of the original unprinted overjacket. A fictionalized account of the infamous "judge," with the pictorial jacket showing Gary Cooper and Walter Brennan from the 1940 film *The Westerner* directed by William Wyler. Although not credited as a source for the film, evidently the publisher and Samuel Goldwyn/United Artists had an arrangement to promote the film by placing new jackets on stock copies of the first edition. Scarce in this condition. (Inventory #: 75702)