Smugglers' Trail [alt. title: Scourge of the Rio Grande]

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1949. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, [1949]. First Edition, stated. Octavo; [vi], 241pp. Illustrated dust jacket over publisher's blue cloth-covered boards with dark blue lettering. Price-clipped jacket shows a small chip at top front just touching text, with rubbing at corners and spine ends and some smudging and soiling to white rear panel. Boards are square with fading along edges and down spine and nudging at head and tail. Endpapers toned with a faint, superficial dampstain to rear free endpaper, not affecting adjacent pages. Binding is sound and pages unmarked.

Originally serialized in Argosy Weekly Magazine in 1934 under the title Scourge of the Rio Grande. This first edition in book form maintains the 1934 copyright date, though the letter code M-Y indicates the publication date was in fact December, 1949.