The result is an emotionally powerful, vivid, and unforgettable re-creation of the Western novel, which Clark transmuted into a universal story about good and evil, individual and community, justice and human nature. First published in 1940, it focuses on the lynching of three innocent men and the tragedy that ensues when law and order are abandoned. Making allowances for age (this volume is eighty-one years old), It is fair to say that this book is in good condition and that the dust jacket is very good, Set in 1885, THE OX-BOW INCIDENT is a searing and realistic portrait of frontier life and mob violence in the American West. The dust jacket shows the original retail price of #2.00 and is moderately chipped at the spine and fold tops and slightly so at the spine bottom but is intact and not soiled or torn and the spine is not faded. Theree is aalso small stamp on the upper ffep that says USS Ramona with a small ink initialed signature. the gutter channels on the front free and rear free endpapers are deeply stained (probably from the binding glue used to adhere them to the inside front and rear boards as it also trace the edges of the pastedown in a perfect shape of the boards. The boards are bound in a wheatstraw cloth, the topstain iand foredges are clean,as is the book internally, and the spine titles are bright. This is a stated first printing of Walter Van Tilburg Clark's THE OX-BOW INCIDENT, published by Random House in 1940.
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