FIRST BLOOD

First UK edition, first printing. Publisher's original light blue cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. A very good copy, the binding square and firm with some bumping to the spine ends and corners, the cloth bright and fresh. The contents, with toning and light foxing to the endpapers and closed text block fore-edge, are otherwise clean and free from inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the rubbed, nicked and creased dustwrapper, that is a touch faded to the spine and otherwise without loss or tears. Not price clipped (7s 6d net to the front flap).

The second book by the author of 'Shane' and the basis for the 1953 film 'The Silver Whip' starring Robert Wagner as Jess Harker and Dale Robertson in the role of Race Crim. Schaefer was inducted into The Western Writers of America Hall of Fame in 2005.