Saint Johnson

New York: Lincoln MacVeagh/The Dial Press. Very Good+. 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. (lacking the original dust jacket, but encased in a professionally-made facsimile reproduction of same; see 2nd image posted with this listing) [good sound copy with light wear to the extremities, slight fading to the spine cloth]. Burnett's fictional re-telling of the Earp-Clanton feud and the events surrounding the famous "Shootout at the O.K. Corral," with the Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday characters renamed "Wayt Johnson" and "Brant White." The book, published just a year after the real Earp's death, was filmed by Universal Pictures under the title LAW AND ORDER two years after its publication, with Walter Huston in the Earp role (renamed again, as "Frame Johnson"); the adapted screenplay was co-written by his son, future director John Huston, one of his earliest screen credits. Successive generations of filmmakers have revisited the O.K. Corral story/legend (notably John Ford, John Sturges, and Lawrence Kasdan), but this 1932 film, directed by Edward L. Cahn, was the first. NOTE again that this book bears a FACSIMILE dust jacket, to serve the dual purpose of protecting the book from further wear and enhancing its appearance on the shelf; its presence has not been factored in to our pricing. .