Willie Boy: A Desert Manhunt.

First edition, limited review copy of the basis for the classic 1969 film Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here starring Robert Redford. Octavo, original cloth, cartographic endpapers. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author on the dedication page to his senior editor, "For Vernon Patterson, whose critical suggesting helped me break through on a number of structural priblems, in the hopes he will find Willie Boy easier to read that it was to right. Harry Lawton." Additionally inscribed below Lawton by his editor Horace Parker, "2/14/60 To Pat: My senior, editor-in-chief - who followed the painful and devious ways of Willie Boy from its inception - Horace 'Doc' Parker." One of 85 numbered copies, this is number 28. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with light toning to the extremities and light chipping to the crown and foot of the spine. Jacket design by Don Perceval. A "James D. Phelan Awards in Literature: First Award Non-Fictional Prose 1960" sticker to the front panel of the dust jacket. Ownership plate of Vernon Patterson to the front pastedown. Accompanied by a personal collection of Vernon Patterson's of Willie Boy memorabilia: four typed letters from Harry Lawton to Patterson with three signed, a typed poem by Patterson titled "The Ballad of Willie Boy", a typed note from Patterson to Horace Parker, one newspaper clipping about the Willie Boy movie starring Robert Redford, one newspaper clipping about Patterson as an editor, a receipt for the purchase of five copies of the book from Paisano Press, and three articles.