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Wyatt Earp Speaks “RARE” Book Hardcover - $250 (Hortonville)
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1st Edition original
Fern Canyon Press
Firm on my price
Book overview
Legendary lawman Wyatt Earp entered Wild West history with his guns blazing and people have been fighting about him ever since. His exploits have become so distorted by many books and movies that, chances are, almost everything you know about Wyatt Earp and the O.K. Corral Gunfight is wrong. Over the years so much has been made up about what happened that the truth is now deeply buried under a pile of distortions, faulty inferences, embellishments, and outright lies.
For the first time ever, Wyatt Earp's writings, court testimony, newspaper interviews and other hard-to-find items from contemporary sources are brought together in this collection. Wyatt Earp himself explains his side of the gunfight near the O.K. Corral and his experiences as a frontier lawman in Tombstone and Dodge City.
This unique book also includes several interviews with Doc Holliday, Bat Masterson's tributes to Wyatt and Doc, a shot-by-shot reconstruction of the famous gunfight with diagrams, and is lavishly illustrated with maps, drawings and photographs.
About this Item
This is a rare book and a collector's item. Fern Canyon Press only printed 489 first edition hardcovers. The second edition was softcover. Fall River published a number of inferior abridged editions with one of the accounts deleted to cut their printing costs. They also moved the footnotes to the end of the chapters, making it very difficult to read the corrections, additional notes, and commentaries while reading the main text which was written from Wyatt Earp's memory at a time when the facts weren't readily available. The footnotes are essential for a full understanding of what happened. This edition made them easy to access.
Both of Fern Canyon Press's editions sold out about 20 years ago. Since then I have seen them selling for high amounts. About 15 years ago one was selling for over a $1,000, but they seem to be selling for less today. The prices will no doubt rise as time goes by, so this might be a good investment. In 2006 and 2007--five years after the book went out of print-- the publisher sold about 20 hardcover editions for $300 each and an additional number of softcovers sold for I believe $150 each. Collectors were anxious to get a hold of them.