Author: KING, Frank M.
Title: Longhorn Trail Drivers: Being a True Story of the Cattle Drives of Long Ago
Description: N.p. Frank M. King, 1940. Hardcover. Small 4to. Burgundy leatherette with gilt lettering. xiii, 272pp. Frontispiece, illustrations, pictorial and map endpapers. Near fine. Appropriate Western brand-style ownership signature on front pastedown. A lovely and tight first edition, though out-of-sequence, lacking colophon limiting the edition to 400 numbered copies. As he often did, King here boldly signs in full in blue ink beneath his frontispiece portrait, adding "Cowhand Author" -- and on the copyright page he handsomely inscribes and signs "To Clifford S. Hadley, / Tophand dentist, Expert in his / line, and a lover of the colorful / traditions of what we have / come to call the Old West. / Sincerely yours / Frank M. King / Cowhand Author. / October 1944, / Los Angeles, California." A charming copy of this uncommon self-published memoir. HERD 1274. HOWES K 150. .

Keywords: Western Americana


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