Please view the attached photos for greatest detail. Overall, this is a very handsome, and extremely collectable edition. Text block has been stained an attractive red top stain by publisher. Mild foxing and age-toning are present to endpapers and title page (very common with this edition) - otherwise interior is clean and bright throughout with bold, detailed illustrations and photographs. Otherwise, boards are square, corners are sharp, and binding remains tight. Volume exhibits light shelf wear and negligible soiling (see photos). It has been preserved in an archival mylar sleeve. Transparent tape is present to crown and front flap of DJ (see photos). Closed tears have been mended by previous owner. Dust jacket has NOT been price-clipped, and shows moderate shelf wear with light chipping to extremities (see photos) - text and artwork are NOT affected. DUST JACKET CONDITION: GOOD VOLUME CONDITION: VERY GOOD+ Hardcover bound in blue boards with red titles to cover and spine with gilt Random House colophon stamped to foot of spine. "The TRUE and SOMETIMES GORY FACTS ABOUT THE STARR GANG, the YOUNGERS, the JAMES BOYS, the DALTONS, the JENNINGS and other notorious DESPERADOES of the early days of the SOUTHWEST". Illustrated with photographs, a chronology and necrology from 1837 to 1924, a glossary of Western terminology, and an extensive annotated bibliography. No index, but extensive appendices of his newspaper articles.BELLE STARR "THE BANDIT QUEEN" by Burton Rascoe (Deputy Sheriff of Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma) Random House, New York City, 1941 340 pp. I was disappointed that it ends in 1920, before he went to New York.
His digressions will not bother you if you are interested in Chicago. By all means read this book if you are interested in Burton Rascoe, in the period, in Chicago, the Tribune, the University of Chicago, Chicago politics circa 1910-1920. The author assumes some sophistication in his readers. This is not a quick and easy read the elegance of the writing sometimes gets in the way of the flow and clarity. Rascoe maintains that there was a “cultural renaissance” going on in Chicago when he was there.
So this book might interest fans of early twentieth century American literature. Mencken, Ring Lardner, John Reed, Carl Sandberg, Edgar Lee Masters, Will Cuppy, Isabel Patterson. The second half is about his life, work, and adventures in Chicago, after arriving there with $1.85 in his pockets.Īs literary editor of the Chicago Tribune, Burton Rascoe knew or corresponded with many writers of note: H. His idols: Emerson, Aristophanes, Alcibiades, Shelley, Whitman, Leonardo, Goethe. The first half of this book is about the author’s old-fashioned childhood in Kentucky and Oklahoma, his education, the mentors and girl friends who influenced him.
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