The Legend of Baby Doe: The Life and Times of the Silver Queen of the West

Putnam, January 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Very Good / Very Good. Item #L071314
ISBN: 0399112499

Small nicks and chips, slight scuffing, rubbing and browning to jacket (chiefly to head of jacket spine and lower right corner of upper jacket); previous owner's blindstamp on front free endpaper; slight internal browning to edges. 273 pages + plates. 'This is the biography of an Irish girl from Wisconsin who came to the Colorado mining camps ... and, after a scandalous divorce, married the greatest of the silver magnates' (jacket front flyleaf). Includes a selected bibliography and index. Signed and inscribed by Burke in blue ink on front free endpaper: 'To Tom + Ruby + Tommy / with all the best from / John Burke / alias R. O'Connor'.14 b/w Illustrations / Plates.

Price: $25.00

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