The Quirt and the Spur: Vanishing Shadows of the Texas Frontier

Austin: Steck-Vaughn Company, [1967]. Facsimile reprint. Octavo; pictorial cloth hardcover, xvi,363pp. From the library of American naturalist, historian and novelist Allan W. Eckert, with stamps to that effect on front free endpaper and bottom edge of text block. Tight, straight and clean – a Near Fine copy, without dustwrapper, probably as issued.

An attractive facsimile reprint of the 1909 first edition, with an added introduction by James M. Day. Eckert (1931-2011) was a prolific author and screenwriter, known for his historical novels a number of which were set in the American west.