A historical novel about the extraordinary life of financier John Law, best known for his role in introducing paper money in France and promoting the Mississippi Company. 5 plates by Henry Hutt. Emerson Hough who traveled over the American West in the closing decades of the nineteenth century when the West was being transformed from a wilderness into a civilized region. He was a historian of the old west and it's ideals and wrote many novels about the Wild West. Publishers oiive Green cloth boards and spine gilt stamped bubble with white fluer de lis design, gilt stamped title and author. White stamped bubble to spine gilt fluer de lis design, with gilt title author and publisher. Spine ends rubbed, bumped. Qaurter inch closed tear to lower spine end. Pale fade line to rear board. Previous owners name to pastedown. Clean text, tighly bound. First Edition, First Printing, First State. BAL 9318: orange and black title page; pg. 132 "with no confident", p. <453> A List of Recent Fiction; p. <456> Hearts Courageous; p. <457> The 13th District. sm 8 vo, 452 pages. In protective archival wraps.

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