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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. The year is 1878, peak of the Texas cattle trade. The place is Dodge City, Kansas, a saloon-filled cow town jammed with liquored-up adolescent cowboys and young Irish hookers. Violence is random and routine, but when the burned body of a mixed-blood boy named Johnnie Sanders is discovered, his death shocks a part-time policeman named Wyatt Earp. And it is a matter of strangely personal importance to Doc Holliday, the frail twenty-six-year-old dentist who has just opened an office at No. 24, Dodge House.Beautifully educated, born to the life of a Southern gentleman, Dr. John Henry Holliday is given an awful choice at the age of twenty-two: die within months in Atlanta or leave everyone and everything he loves in the hope that the dry air and sunshine of the West will restore him to health. Young, scared, lonely, and sick, he arrives on the rawest edge of the Texas frontier just as an economic crash wrecks the dreams of a nation. Soon, with few alternatives open to him, Doc Holliday is gambling professionally; he is also living with Mária Katarina Harony, a high-strung Hungarian whore with dazzling turquoise eyes, who can quote Latin classics right back at him. Kate makes it her business to find Doc the high-stakes poker games that will support them both in high style. It is Kate who insists that the couple travel to Dodge City, because thats where the money is.And that is where the unlikely friendship of Doc Holliday and Wyatt Earp really begins-before Wyatt Earp is the prototype of the square-jawed, fearless lawman; before Doc Holliday is the quintessential frontier gambler; before the gunfight at the O.K. Corral links their names forever in American frontier mythology-when neither man wanted fame or deserved notoriety.Authentic, moving, and witty, Mary Doria Russells fifth novel redefines these two towering figures of the American West and brings to life an extraordinary cast of historical characters, including Hollidays unforgettable companion, Kate. First and last, however, Doc is John Henry Hollidays story, written with compassion, humor, and respect by one of our greatest contemporary storytellers. Seller Inventory # DADAX1400068045
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. Random House, 2011, New York. Hard Cover. Book Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Stated "First Edition", first printing with a full number line starting at "1". 9-1/2" tall, 394 numbered pages includes "Author Note" followed by unnumbered pages of "About the Author" and "About the Type"; plain medium brown boards with matching medium brown quarter binding, gilt lettering on spine only; plain ivory end pages; fore edge is not trimmed. Book is square, hinges tight, top rear corner very lightly bumped, no dings on edges, head and heel of spine lightly creased, interior clean and unmarked; no page corners folded or damaged; it has a 1" long slightly raised vertical strip at the bottom ad middle of the front paste down, clearly a manufacturing defect, no staining or discoloration. Jacket is clean; no tears, folds or fading; publisher's original price of "U.S.A. $26.00 / Canada $30.00" listed on the upper right corner of front flap. Condition of book and jacket consistent with not being read. No other discernible or objectionable faults on book or jacket such as marks or writing within, stains, tears, chips, or other damage that would diminish its appearance. No remainder mark, no previous owner markings or inscriptions, not price clipped, not a book club edition, not a former library book. Legible signed ("Mary D. Russell") in thin blue felt pen by author on the title page beneath her printed name; done in my presence at Saint Louis County (Missouri) Library headquarters on March 10, 2015, after a 7 PM prepared talk about her most recent book, "Epitaph", focusing on the people and events in that book and how, when and why they became legends, followed by a question & answer session. I also have a bookmark and a flier from this author event. Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # BMR-2021-1-5-2
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