Beating Back

New York: D. Appleton & Company. Good with no dust jacket. 1914. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Edited and with an introduction by Will Irwin. Frontispiece, with all Charles M. Russell illustrations present. Blue cloth stamped in gilt. Rubbing to the cloth with a small loss of material, primarily to the front board. Dust soiling and smudges to the bottom page edges. Bookseller ticket on the rear pastedown endpaper from The White House in San Francisco. Lacking the dust jacket. Edited by Will Irwin, who provides the introductory first chapter. Al Jennings was one of the last of the famous outlaws of the Wild West, and his life story (truncated) is one of the final tales of the 19th century picaros, with its adventures and how-to-do-it accounts of robbing trains. Six-Guns 1169. Franklin, page 27. ; 354 pages . (Inventory #: 23584)