first edition
1927 · New York and London
by FERGUSSON, Harvey
New York and London: Alfred A. Knopf / Borzoi Books, 1927. First Trade Edition. Octavo (20cm); purple cloth-covered boards, with titling and decorations stamped in blue and yellow on spine and front cover; yellow topstain; deckled fore- and bottom-edges; pictorial endpapers; dustjacket; 206pp; illus. Bookshop sticker to rear pastedown. Light sunning and rubbing to spine ends and board edges, with shelf-soil to covers; Very Good. Dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $2.50), spine-tanned, with shelf-soil, chips to spine ends, tape mends to verso of front flap, front panel, and spine (including entirely reattached front flap, and 3.5" diagonal tear to front panel), and tiny chips, tears, and creases to extremities; Good. The final novel in Fergusson's Followers of the Sun trilogy of the Santa Fe Trail, following The Blood of the Conquerors and In Those Days. [84832]. (Inventory #: 84832)