B&W Illustrations; Spine ends & corners of book covers have a bit of light bumping and rubbing. Red cloth binding with gilt lettering on spine and front cover of book. Covers have embossed decorations also. There is a light slant to spine of book and spine of book has a bit of very light sunning (the red cloth has lightened just a bit). Text pages clean & bright. Missing front endpaper (it looks as if it was cleaning cut out by former owner). Overall, a very good copy. By the author of the Fugitive Blacksmith. --Elkins says to me -why don't you write a book about it?- He claims that if I would just start in and tell the whole business and let out about all the low-down people and the way-up folks I got in with, and how it happened, nobody would believe it, and they would all say it was a great story book. My name is Sam Daly and it is over a year now since I got into the Valdes mix-up--

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