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Roberts, Morley. PAINTED ROCK: TALES AND NARRATIVES OF PAINTED ROCK, SOUTH PANHANDLE, TEXAS, TOLD BY CHARLIE BAKER, LATE OF THAT CITY AND ALSO OF SNYDER, SCURRY COUNTY. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1907. Octavo, original elaborately decorated dark blue cloth. First edition. Lippincott's edition was printed in Edinburgh by Morrison & Gibb Limited. Ten short stories with a Western American setting, serious tales for the most part, with good local color and colloquial dialogue. Hubin (1994), p. 687. Penciled signature on front free endpaper. A bright, fine copy. (#115632).

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