Siringo, Chas. A.. A Texas Cowboy or Fifteen Years on the Hurricane Deck of a Spanish Pony. Taken From Real Life By Chas. A. Siringo An Old Stove-Up "Cow Puncher," Who Has Spent Nearly Twenty Years On The Great Western Cattle Ranges. Rand, McNally & Co., Publishers, New York, 1886.

Price: US$60.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: 347 pp., frontis, illustrations. A scarce soft cover reprint. A good copy with the front cover missing otherwise intact with the back cover remaining and all interior pages tight. Now in a protective clear Mylar cover. This book is dated 1886 but, we are told, was published in 1893. Texas Basic Books #185H, Six-Guns #2032, Herd #2077, six Score #99, Howes S518, Graff #3804.

Seller: K & B Books, Tucson, AZ, AZ, U.S.A.

Siringo, Charles A.. A Texas Cow-Boy, or Fifteen Years on the Hurricane Deck of a Spanish Pony. Rand, McNally, & Co., Publishers, Chicago, IL, 1886.

Price: US$275.00 + shipping

Condition: Fair

Description: Adventures of the Pinkerton agent, one of the first to use the technique of going undercover. The Pinkertons tried several times to suppress the publication of Siringo's memoirs. Third edition, variant Rand McNally imprint, with color frontispiece present in 2nd edition. Red cloth boards are quite worn, corners starting to fray. Binding remains intact, some splitting starting at the frontispiece. Howes S-518. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 347 pp

Seller: Back of Beyond Books, Moab, UT, U.S.A.

Siringo, Charles A. A Texas Cowboy, or Fifteen Years on the Hurricane Deck of a Spanish Pony Taken From Real Life, by Charles A. Siringo, An Old Stove up Cow Puncher Who Has Spent Nearly Twenty Years on the Great Western Cattle Ranges. Rand, McNally & Co. Publishers, Chicago, 1886.

Price: US$750.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: (1886) Original pictorial wraps, bound in cloth with a quarter leather spine. 347 pages, + ads, color frontis, illustrations, pages age toned but not brittle. Front colored pictorial wrap in very nice condition. Seldom found in wraps. The first and most widely read of cowboy biographies. Herd 2077, Six Guns 2032, Howes 510.

Seller: Old West Books (ABAA), St. Robert, MO, U.S.A.

SIRINGO, Charles Angelo (1855-1928).. A Texas Cow Boy or, Fifteen Years on the Hurricane Deck of a Spanish Pony.. Chicago and New York: Rand, McNally & Co., 1886., 1886.

Price: US$850.00 + shipping

Description: 8vo., (7 4/8 x 5 inches). 5-page publisher’s catalogue at end (text brown and brittle throughout). Chromolithographed frontispiece, lithographed advertisement for the Colorado Short Line with a woodcut portrait of the author on the verso, full-page woodcut advertisement for Colgate & Co on the verso of the dedication leaf, and full-page portrait of Billy the Kid (lacking 5 wood-engraved plates, quite brown and brittle). Original publisher’s brown cloth, decorated on the front cover with a fine gilt block of the Cow-boy on his horse (extremities scuffed, pale stains). THE FIRST AUTOBIOGRAPHY BY A COW-BOY Second edition, the issue with copyright notice dated 1886 on the verso of the title-page. After a troubled youth, Siringo returned toTexas in 1871, and an "adventurous life followed. Siringo was a cowboy for Abel H. "Shanghai" Pierce (1871), a Texas rancher, trailing stray cattle, rounding up mavericks, and branding them for Pierce's Rancho Grande, in Wharton County. When Shanghai and his brother Jonathan sold to Allen, Pool, and Company, Siringo worked for that firm until he was caught starting his own illegal herd with strays that were technically his bosses' property. He signed on at W. B. Grimes's ranch in Matagorda County, Texas, where he handled scattered horse herds. He skinned frozen cattle with a neighbor (1873-1874), was hired by the Muckleroy brothers to drive cattle up the Chisholm Trail to Kansas in 1874, and carried passengers and food inland by wagon from the port of Indianola, Texas. That failing, he hit the Chisholm Trail again for Grimes in 1876 and 1877. Soon after the Lincoln County War, in New Mexico (1878), Siringo met Billy the Kid in the Texas Panhandle. Siringo cofounded and worked for the LX Ranch in the Panhandle until 1883. That year he married Mamie Lloyd in Caldwell, Kansas, bought a store there, and sold cigars, ice cream, and oysters" (Robert L. Gale for ANB).

Seller: Arader Galleries - AraderNYC, New York, NY, U.S.A.

Siringo, Charles A.. A TEXAS COW BOY OR, FIFTEEN YEARS ON THE HURRICANE DECK OF A SPANISH PONY. TAKEN FROM REAL LIFE. Rand, McNally & Co., Chicago & New York, 1886.

Price: US$850.00 + shipping

Description: 347pp. plus eight plates and [5]pp. of advertisements. Original gilt pictorial cloth, with "Rand, McNally & Co. Chicago" stamped in gilt at bottom of spine. Front hinge repaired. Slight edge wear, text tanned as usual, with a couple corners chipped. Lacks front free endsheet. Also lacks portrait of the author and color frontis. "The first - and best - cowboy autobiography" (Howes), and undoubtedly one of the most important range books. This copy lacks the portrait of the author and the color frontispiece, but includes a plate of a buffalo captioned "An Ugly Predicament" and an odd advertisement on the verso of the dedication leaf for "Colgate & Co.'s Cashmere Bouquet Perfume." opposite the first page of text. Printed from the sheets of the second edition which Rand, McNally acquired from Siringo & Dobson. REESE, SIX SCORE 99. HOWES S518. GRAFF 3804. DYKES, KID 17. DOBIE, p.119. ADAMS SIX-GUNS 2032. ADAMS HERD 2077. BASIC TEXAS BOOKS 185.

Seller: William Reese Company - Americana, New Haven, CT, U.S.A.

Siringo, Charles A. A Texas Cowboy, or Fifteen Years on the Hurricane Deck of a Spanish Pony Taken From Real Life, by Charles A. Siringo, An Old Stove up Cow Puncher Who Has Spent Nearly Twenty Years on the Great Western Cattle Ranges. Siringo & Dobson Publishing, Chicago, 1886.

Price: US$3500.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: True second edition. 347 pages, + ads, color frontis, illustrations, original brown cloth with gilt cowboy on a horse on front cover, edge wear, minor fading to spine but gilt lettering visible, housed in a slipcase. This copy has a few blank order pages bound in the front, and stamped on the copyright page "supplied by Rand McNally," Rand McNally issued the third printing in 1886 and most likely they purchased the remainder of Siringo's copies and placed their stamp on them. The first and most widely read of cowboy biographies. Herd 2077, Six Guns 2032, Howes 510.

Seller: Old West Books (ABAA), St. Robert, MO, U.S.A.