Warlock

New York: Viking, (1958). First edition, 1st printing. 8vo. 471 pp. Original quarter white cloth over red paper-covered boards, stamped in red, in original unclipped ($4.95) dust-jacket. A very vulnerable jacket, shows rubbing and edge wear - particular to edges, tips and spine ends. Some general fading particular to spine. Rubbing and handling wear present, with trace foxing. Some soiling evidence, some toning. Protected in archival mylar. Book is tight, square and firm. Mild handling wear. Toning to spine cloth, some general dustiness. Soiling spray evidence to top text block. Nicks to panel edges, particular to top front panel edge. Page edges mildly toned. Corners lightly nudged. Interior clean and unmarked.

Dust Jacket: Good

Hardcover: Good

“The story is set in the early 1880s, in a fictional southwestern mining town called Warlock and its vicinity. The novel's characters and many elements of its plot are loosely based on actual people and events from Tombstone, Arizona during the same time period, including Wyatt Earp and the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral. West literature. Professor of English at the University of California, Irvine Michelle Latiolais described Warlock as belonging to the "pantheon of western masterpieces" alongside Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian and John Williams's Butcher's Crossing.”