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Norman: Univ. Of Oklahoma Pr., 1965. First Edition . Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. xii + 301 pp., map, b/w photos, notes, bib., index. The mysterious murders of prosecutor Col. Fountain & his young son in early New Mexico. Black clothbound hardcover in v.g. cond., price-clipped v.g. d/w shows lt. wear to corners & head & heel of spine.

University of Oklahoma Press Norman 1965. First edition 301pp ex libris (usual cancellation stamps, pockets etc.) very good (faint gum stains to free endpapers) d/w very good in plastic (light rubbing, rear flap price clipped)

Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 1965. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good +. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 301pp.incl.index; HB blk.w/silver; slight rub w/foxing on foredge&endpapers; clean,tight pgs. DJ green w/white-pic.cover; slight rub w/foxing. " ...a pool of blood and a blood-soaked handkerchief pointed to murder. Although indictments were returned, no one was convicted of that murder, which has become New Mexico's most talked-about mystery" illus. signed.

Norman, Oklahoma: Univ. of Oklahoma Press. Good+ in Fair dust jacket. 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. In mylar; 8 vo; 301 pages pages. .

Norman: Univeristy of Oaklahoma Press, 1965 First edition. xi, 301pp. 12 portraits and other illustrations from photographs, map; bibliography and index. Jacket illustration by Joe Beeler. Publisher's black cloth lettered in silver. A very fine and bright copy with pictorial dust jacket (slightest of rubbing along fore-edge of jacket, minor short closed tear to top edge). . "A well-written and long-needed book about one of the leading characters in New Mexico. It contains much on the lawlessness of that state and tells about Oliver Lee, Jim Gilliland, Pat Garrett, and others, with a mention of Billy the Kid" (Six-Guns). Colonel Fountain, a prominent New Mexico Republican, disappeared with his eight year-old son while driving his buckboard from Lincoln to his home in Las Cruces in January of 1896. Later, a pool of blood and a blood-soaked handkerchief pointed to murder. Oliver Lee and Albert Bacon Fall were indicted, but not convicted, for the murder. Fall later achieved dubious… Read More