by Jack Schaefer
First edition, first printing in dust jacket
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1949. First edition. (First printing with date on title page.) [viii], 214 pp. Bound in publisher's tan cloth stamped in brown. Fine, crisp with bright contents, in a Near Fine dust jacket, unsophisticated, lightly rubbed along edges, subtle toning to spine panel, price clipped. An excellent copy of the classic Western that inspired the 1953 film directed by George Stevens.