HELLDORADO: Bringing the Law to the Mesquite (Signed) by Breakenridge, William M - 1928

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. Collectible Good. 1st printing. Cloth. 256pp. Illustrated with vintage photos, including portraits. On the lower title page is a library embossment, and at the top gutter corner area is a call number in ink. A bookplate has been removed from the front paste down in a pretty careful way. So we call this a very, very gentle ex-lib copy. On the ffep is a long presentation, dated Tucson November 12th, 1928, by Breakenridge to Mrs. Nan Wood, the artist wife of noted Arizona book and American Indian photography collector, Charles Morgan Wood. In the inscription, Breakenridge says that Charles had "persuaded me to write this volume with the understanding that he would review it." Wood died in early 1927 and thus did not see the result of his persuasion. Volumes continue to be written about the whole Tombstone and Earp saga, and Breakenridge is one of the key players in it. Cover corner points just exposed and bit of wear to head and toe of spine. No dj. We still grade this as a nearly very good copy.