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Second edition. Embossed front and back covers with gold lettering on spine. Fading to spine and covers. Spotting to upper portion of front cover of volume two. Heavy foxing throughout both volumes. Pages largely unopened and bindings tight. Library blindstamps on title-page and a few interior text pages; small bookplates on both front pastedowns.

First edition (first printing). A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. There is debate about whether this book, intended as a text book, was ever issued in a dust jacket for the first edition. In any case, this copy is very good, with some spotting to the spine, in a very good dust jacket, with light tanning to the spine and some light staining to the price-clipped dust jacket. Whether this dust jacket is original to the book, or married from a later printing, is beyond the skill of this cataloguer. Dust jackets for this book, on any printing, are vanishingly scarce. [JSP01]

First edition (first printing). Black-red cloth with gilt lettering and gold cowboy figure on the cover. Endpapers illustrated with maps. Minor wear to the spine ends and light offsetting to the endpapers apparently from scotch tape used to secure a dust jacket protector (now replaced). A near fine copy in a dust jacket color faded on the spine and lightly along the top inch of the front cover; with some toning to flap edges and rear cover. Signed by the author on the first blank. A very nice copy. Six-Guns 1221; Howes K58.

First edition (first printing with publisher's seal and A on the copyright page). Previous owner's name, else a near fine copy in a very good or better dust jacket with light wear to the edges. With the promotional bookmark that accompanied at least some copies with a short introduction to the book on one side and a list of Will James' books on the other, reproduced from James' handwritten copy. Arguably, this is a separate Will James publication, however slight and ephemeral, and undoubtedly missing from many James collections. [JSP01]

Bound in yellow half morocco over blue cloth. Spine tanned, with a bit of spotting to the leather, else a near fine copy in a very good slipcase. Bookmark ribbon detached but laid in. Copy 3 of 12, numbered, signed Fred Peters and dated on a sheet of House of Peters letterhead, tipped to the first leaf. [JSP01]

Fine or nearly so. One call sheet is signed by both Reed and Smits (and all the other actors). [JSP02; JHG2019]

First edition (first printing). Very good or better in contemporary cloth and decorated paper bindings; old gymnasium library stamp on each title page; some paper adhesions to the covers of a few volumes, but a remarkably well-preserved set.

First editions (first printings). Near fine copies in original green cloth with bright gilt lining and lettering on spine. Spine edges are rolled. Black endpapers. Pages edges to 1906 volume have mild foxing. A handsome set.

First edition (first printing). A fine hardcover copy; no dust jacket, as issued. In a fine original slipcase. Signed by the author, artist, and printer on the limitation pages.

First edition (first printing). A very good copy in green-stained vellum. Title page in red and black, with printer's device.. The first few pages have some mends and an unsuccerssful attempt to erase some later writing in ink.

First edition (first printing). Near fine copies in black coth covers with bright gold lettering and illustrations. Blindstamp of prior owner on last page in text volume. Housed in near fine cloth covered slipcase with very slight surface wear.

First edition (first printing). A bit of edge wear, and top of page block toned, thus near fine. In a dust jacket with light wear to spine ends, else near fine. Review copy with publisher's review slip laid in. Inscribed on the front free endpaper by the author in 1974 to the previous owner and signed both as "Jerzy" and "Joseph Novak." [JSP01]

Very Good

First edition (first printing). Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Some uneven fading and spotting to top of page block. Jacket lightly toned on the spine and spotted on the verso, else near fine. A very nice copy of an acclaimed author's first book.

First edition (first printing). Very good in a twentieth-century cloth binding. Rare hinge repair with Japanese tissue. Rare.

First edition (first printing). Near fine copy in illustrated covers. No dust jacket.

First edition (first printing). Library binding but not an ex-library copy, thus uncommon. No dust jacket, as issued. Some wear to spine ends and corners, and one corner lightly bumped, thus very good.

First edition (first printing). A bit of wear to edges and page block, else near fine in a dust jacket with some fading to spine and loss to the ends. Inscribed by the author: "To Bernard Brussel-Smith, who designed this beautiful book, my gratitude. Thomas Berger."

A very good set. Dust jackets are scuffed and faded at the spine. The paperback edition is in print at US$450.

First edition, first state; one of 70 or so copies with the five final words missing from pages 231. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with toning to the top edge. Slight sunning to top of cloth covers. Scarce.