Willie Boy: A Desert Manhunt
Balboa Island, CA: Paisano Press, 1960. Very Good / Good. Item #48278
Balboa Island, CA: Paisano Press, 1960. First Edition. Octavo (22cm); 224pp. Publisher’s illustrated dust jacket with $5.95 price intact; boards bound in grey cloth with black stamping to front panel and spine; decorative map endsheets. Photographs and illustrations throughout. Dust jacket rather bumped and toned with small chips and tears; some soiling to front panel. Jacket front panel cleanly separated. Boards bumped and toned. Binding sound. Textblock toned with some foxing to foreedge; endsheets and interior pages clean, if lightly toned. Good or better. Signed and cheekily inscribed by the author at dedication page.
Inscription reads: “For Judy, who beneath the western stereotype should be able to detect the existentialist homework, with the author’s best wishes, / Harry Lawton.” Laid-in at front is a newspaper scrap with the headline “‘Willie Boy’ Author Wins $500 Prize.”.
Price: $100.00