The Last Showdown

Hardcover in dust jacket, FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM (so stated on copyright page) Hardcover, 1975 by Max Brand. Orange cloth, First Book publication (originally published in magazine format by Street Smith in 1929.) Jacket design by Ra Diehl. From the dj flap: "The Duster's whole life had been on long game with the law. He had been tried and acquittd five times for robbery, and no one knew the names of all the famous gunmen he had dropped or laid away for repairs of some sort. He and his partner Hector Mannes had done a hundred jobs together until they walked into the trap set for them at an Idaho bank."


Genre: Western