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London: John Murray, 1907. First Edition . Cloth. Good/No Dust Jacket. A Good copy re-bound in maroon cloth lettered in gold. Tanning at the outer edges of the text block, sound binding, clean within. Littlr wear to the modern covers. All illustrations are present.
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With the Border Ruffians: Memories of the Far West 1852-1868
by Williams, R.H., (and E.W. Williams, editor)
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With the Border Ruffians: Memories of the Far West 1852-1868
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London: John Murray, 1908. Hardcover. Fair. Reprint. Ex-lib with usual stamps etc. Boards very shelfworn and rubbed and spine split all the way down both sides. Spine strip very tatty. Front board along with half title almost detached. 478pp. + 12pp. catalogue unmarked and undiscoloured. Actual textblock binding good.
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WITH THE BORDER RUFFIANS, MEMORIES OF THE FAR WEST 1852-1868
by WILLIAMS, R.H. [EDITED BY E.W. WILLIAMS]
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London: John Murray, 1907., 1907. First edition. First edition. 8vo. Light blue cloth, xviii, 478 pp. plus 12 pages of advertisements, frontis. (portrait), introduction, illustrated, index. The adventures of this Englishman are full of experiences and excitement. In 1852 he sailed from England bound for City Point, Virginia. After living in western Virginia for a few years he left for Kansas and learned that each man at the time was a law unto himself, and human life was not valued very highly. He next arrived in Texas on a cattle ranch in the heart of Comanche territory. Cattle raising and desperate fighting with Comanches occupied him for a while, then came the Civil War and shortly thereafter in 1868 he returned home to England. Six Guns 2411 says "Scarce." "Deals with life during the lawless days of Kansas and Texas." Howes W473 says "After a lurid frontier apprenticeship in Kansas, this young Englishman ranched in Western Texas and served with the Rangers." Herd…
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With the Border Ruffians: Memories of the Far West, 1852-1868
by WILLIAMS, R.H.
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London: John Murray, 1907. Hardcover. Edited by E.W. Williams. 8vo. Red cloth, gilt, white and black pictorial stamping. xviii, 478pp. Top edge gilt. Frontispiece, illustrations. Very good. Mild edgewear, with spine slightly sunned but spine gilt bright; 1909 ownership signature on front flyleaf. First British edition, a tight and nice copy of this account by an Englishman who in America became a Confederate partisan, Texas Ranger, rancher, Indian fighter, sailor and of course "Border Ruffian." Quite scarce. Wright Howes comments, "After a lurid frontier apprenticeship in Kansas, this young Englishman ranched in Western Texas and served with the Rangers." GRAFF 4686. HERD 2528. HOWES W473. NEVINS II, 247. SIX GUNS 2411.
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