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Privately Published, OKC, 1944, 1944. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Blue cloth. 580pp. Illust/photos. Frontispiece of Pruiett. fos of C. E. Dudley (1945) on front paste down. One of the most remarkable lawyers to practice law in the West & certainly in Oklahoma, & a champion read! From the title page: "The life story of the man who defended 343 persons charged with murder. The record shows 303 acquittals and the only client to hear the death sentence pronounced was saved by Presidential clemency." I believe it is accurate to say that the authorship & publication of the book was in dispute, & the reasons are too elaborate to present in this space. This copy vg. Some sort of a gift presentation dated Dec. 9, 1944, has been marked over with a black crayon. Pencil note at inscriptions says "see page 57". The inscription is very likely referring to someone on that page. Part of inscription says, "able assistant". Otherwise this copy is clean & tight. There is some fading to the covers, but… Read More

Privately Published, OKC, 1944, 1944. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Blue cloth. 580pp. Illust/photos. Frontispiece of Pruiett. fos of C. E. Dudley (1945) on front paste down. Vivid autobiography of one of the most remarkable lawyers to practice law in the West & certainly in Oklahoma. From the title page: "The life story of the man who defended 343 persons charged with murder. The record shows 303 acquittals and the only client to hear the death sentence pronounced was saved by Presidential clemency." I believe it is accurate to say that the authorship & publication of this book was in dispute, & the reasons are too elaborate to present in this space. This copy vg, with the spine only slightly faded -- almost all copies that I have seen are quite faded. There is a wrinkle to the cloth at the bottom of the spine. Very scarce. No dj (I have never seen a dj for this book). 6-guns 1774.