Inscribed to Stanley Marcus of Neiman Marcus
Sam Bass
Publication: Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1936. First Edition.
Notes: A substantial biography of the outlaw who met his end from a Texas Ranger's bullet in Round Rock, Texas, just north of Austin.
"One of the most authentic of all outlaw biographies, this is by far the best account of any Texas badman. Walter Prescott Webb said it is 'a biography that bears the stamp of authenticity in every sentence...'"—John Jenkins, Basic Texas Books, no. 71.
"The most reliable account of Sam Bass"—A. C. Greene, The Fifty Best Texas Books.
"The most complete and reliable work on Sam Bass to date"—Ramon Adams, The Ramon Adams One-150 list of the most important books on Western outlaws and lawmen, #60.
262 pages.
Edition + Condition: First edition (first printing with 1936 on the title page and the copyright page). Spine tanned and spotted, thus good to very good. The jacket is a bit faded on the spine (the red printing is pink) in an edgeworn, possibly supplied, dust jacket with a two-inch tear at the top of the spine. This copy is inscribed on the copyright page, "For Stanley Marcus, with best wishes. Wayne Gard."
With the small bookplate of Billie and Stanley Marcus, designed by Rockwell Kent, on the front pastedown and a laid-in publicity sheet about the book (very scarce). Stanley Marcus was an executive at the Neiman Marcus department store.
Item No: #365259
Price: $250