MIDNIGHT AND NOONDAY or DARK DEEDS UNRAVELED
Caldwell: Privately printed, 1890. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair. Item #0211055
1st issue. Printed paper over boards. 405pp. Illustrated with one drawing opposite p. 273. Facsimile of frontispiece portrait of Freeman laid in. Old pencil signature of John Solf on the front paste down, & far later (11-14-66) ink signature of Ralph Solf on the same. One of the rarest & most desirable of all outlaw & cattle books & a cornerstone of any serious library on Indian Territory, Kansas, & early Oklahoma. This copy is badly water stained but has been rebacked under original cloth spine with original boards and is in tight & stable reading condition. Paper over covers badly worn as in almost all copies. Corners were professionally stabilized. A very flexible, sturdy, & easily usable/readable copy. A page edge tear or two have been archivally closed. This is the 1st issue, not to be confused with the 2nd issue of 1890 or the 1892 edition. Rare. 6-guns 763 (where Adams mistakenly confuses the issue points), Herd 843 (Adams correct as far as he goes, but is incomplete), 150 #56 (Adams incomplete again), Howes F353, Graff 1411, Dobie p121, Dykes Kid 21, cf Rader 1472, Reese 39.
Price: $495.07