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Author:	Louis L'Amour
Title:	Law Of The Desert Born
Publisher:	Corgi
Country:	UK
Date:	1984
Format:	Paperback
Genre:	Fiction, History
ISBN-10:	0552125385
Total Editions:	2
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black, white corgi cut-out silhouette in square logo
corgi books (title page)

a corgi book 0 552 125388 5

first publication in great britain

corgi edition published 1984

copyright © 1983 by louis l'amour enterprises, inc.

256pp including 8 unpaginated pp titles, indica, table of contents; 3 pp. foreword, author's notes to ten of the stories, their settings, etc. are interspersed through the book; 3 end pp: 2pp advertising a random louis l'amour title each, with blurblet, isbn, price; 1p "louis l'amour titles available from corgi books" listing 29 titles with cat#s, prices, mail-order form (barnicoats unattributed) (novermber'84)

collection:
the stories contained .. previously published in slightly different form:
"law of the desert born" dime western 4/1946
"riding on" exciting western 11/1951
"the black rock coffin makers" .44 western 2/1950
"ride, you tonto raiders!" new western magazine 8/1949
"one last gun notch" .44 western 5/1942
"death song of the sombrero" new western magazine 4/1947
"the guns talk loud" 15 western tales 4/1947
"grub line rider" triple western 6/1951
"the marshal of painted rock" triple western 2/1953
"trap of gold" argosy 8/1951; revised edition "war party" by louis l'amour (1975), q.v.

cover art uncredited (wrap-around)
cover price £1.50

Vdespite the indica note that this "is the only authorized (sic) edition of these stories", the previous year's merkin bantam books, inc. mmpb was presumably previously also authorised - and the source of that note.

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ppint. ● 14th May 2018		fiction, short stories, historical, western reference copy provided by courtesy of tony at the old pier bookshop, morecambe seafront some previous owner has torn out the third (unpaginated) leaf from the book, which may bear the author's dedication; should any bookcatter out there be able to supply this from an intact copy, please do post it here in a comment.



Tailspin 20th Aug 2022		(this comment is from another edition of this book)

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Louis L'Amour - Law Of The Desert Born - Bantam - Hardcover - USA - 0345528123 (2013)