$1,000
Estimate: $1,000 - $1,500
The Collection of Victor Niederhoffer part II
Auction: September 19, 2019 11:00:00 AM EDT
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1931. First edition. 8vo. Illustrated with frontispiece portrait, photo plates, and title vignette. Signed by the author in blue ink below frontispiece portrait. Publisher's pictorial pebbled brown cloth, top edge stained red, other edges untrimmed, extremities with light wear; pictorial endpapers, some toning and offsetting on title page, else generally clean. Howes D39; Adams, Six Guns & Saddle Leather, 549 The Dalton brothers led one of the last gangs of western horseback outlaws, active circa 1890-1892. During an attempted bank robbery in Coffeyville, Kansas in 1892, two of the brothers and two other gang members were killed; Emmett survived, with more than 20 gunshot wounds, was captured, tried, and convicted. He was paroled after 14 years in prison.