First edition. 8vo. Pp. [viii], 452. Quarter-bound blue cloth over darker blue paper-covered boards, lettered in gilt to spine; blue and yellow headband. Book design by Glen M. Edelstein; dust jacket art by Frank Tenney Johnson.
Publisher's bumf laid in. Stamped "Proof/Damaged" to front pastedown, else Fine.
An Alternate Selection of Doubleday Book Club, The Literary Guild, and Doubleday Large Print. L'Amour's second volume of collected stories gathers thirty classic tales of the American frontier, including his signature stories of Texas Ranger Chick Bowdrie. When complete, it will comprise nine books in total, including a two-part volume each, of the Adventure and Crime Stories. Winner of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. "A master storyteller." –Kirkus Reviews