Hands Up; or, Thirty-Five Years of Detective Life in the Mountains and on the Plains...A Condensed Criminal History of the Far West

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Sale 420: Americana - Cartography - Gene Gammel Collection of Cowboy Toys & Memorabilia, Part I (#420) 01/21/2010 11:00 AM PST Closed
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Lot #80Hands Up; or, Thirty-Five Years of Detective Life in the Mountains and on the Plains...A Condensed Criminal History of the Far West

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Sale 420: Americana - Cartography - Gene Gammel Collection of Cowboy Toys & Memorabilia, Part I (#420) 01/21/2010 11:00 AM PST Closed
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Title:

Hands Up; or, Thirty-Five Years of Detective Life in the Mountains and on the Plains...A Condensed Criminal History of the Far West

Author:

Cook, David J.

Place Published:

Denver

Publisher:

W.F. Robinson

Date Published:

1897

Description:

[ii], 442 pp. Plates and illustrations after portraits and sketches. (8vo) 9x6, original terracotta cloth lettered in gilt. Second Edition.

Inscribed by Cook on the front free endpaper. Considerably enlarged from the very rare first edition of 1882. David Cook had an astonishing career as a lawman, serving as City Marshall and later Chief of Police of Denver, deputy marshal of Colorado Territory and the State of Colorado, Major General of the state militia, and founder of the Rocky Mountain Detective Association. Adams, Six-Guns 241; Graff 862; Howes C728.

Condition:

Light wear to extremities, rear hinge starting; very good.

Item#:

206980

Headline:

David J. Cook Hands Up 1897
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