Description
The first edition, first printing of Warhorse: A Novel of the Old West by John Cunningham, inscribed by Cunningham to fellow western writer, Walker A. Tompkins.
Octavo, 384pp. Brown cloth, title stamped on spine and front panel. Stated “First printing” on the copyright page. Wear to tips of the spine, internally clean, solid text block. In the publisher’s near fine dust jacket, $3.75 retail price on the front flap, light sunning to the spine, touch of wear at the tips, a near fine example.
Inscribed on the front free endpaper: “To my good friend Walker Tompkins / from / John Cunningham.”
A western novel set in Warhorse, Montana, and San Antonio, Texas, in 1882. Cunningham was a Montana-born author whose story “The Tin Star” was adapted into the film High Noon.
