The Outlaws of Cave-In-Rock: Historical Accounts of the Famous Highwaymen and River Pirates who operated in Pioneer Days upon the Ohio and Mississippi rivers and over the old Natchez Trace
Inscribed copy Cleveland: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1924.
First Edition. Hardcover. Small quarto. [1], 364 pages. Color frontispiece illustration of "Cave-In-Rock" protected by tissue. 9 illustrations and maps in text. Burgundy cloth hardcover with gilt title on the spine. Untrimmed edges with several unopened pages in the back. Light toning to the title page. Inscribed the author on the front blank end paper - "To Gisbert B. Alberts - to my good old friend Gisbert, a friend for whom my friendship ever grows - from Otto - from his old timer Otto Rothert. Starks Building, Louisville, Kentucky, January 28, 1924". A clipped, short news article, from the Louisville Courier Journal and dated in pencil Feb. 3 1924 laid inside the front cover. The news clipping regards Rothert's book.
Howes R 466. Very good. Item #17269
Price: $250.00