(WEST) William Elsey Connelley Wild Bill and His Era (extra

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(WEST.) William Elsey Connelley. Wild Bill and His Era (extra-illustrated limited edition). 12 plates as issued. 15 leaves from the original manuscript in the author's hand (including the title page) bound in. [2], xii, [2], 229 printed pages. 8vo, publisher's gilt pictorial buckram, minimal wear; minimal wear to contents; #38 of a "special edition" of 200, uncut; small bookseller tag and collector's tag on rear pastedown. New York: Press of the Pioneers, 1933

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Connelley spent 42 years researching this biography of the legendary lawman James B. "Wild Bill" Hickok, including numerous interviews with first-hand sources. After his 1930 death, his daughter Edith Connelley Clift completed the editing and saw to its posthumous publication. This copy was part of a limited edition with portions of the original manuscript bound in. The added manuscript title page shows a different subtitle: "Wild Bill, the King of the Border Men." Adams, Six-Guns 480; Howes C690.