The Hawkline Monster: A Gothic Western

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1974. First ed., first printing (full number line). Octavo in brown cloth and color illus jacket; 216 pages; 21 cm.. Binding moderately rolled; some discoloration to jacket; personal owner name to front free endpaper. Altogether about very good(-) in very good to very good(-) jacket in archival mylar. ISBN: 0671218093

"The year is 1902; the setting, Eastern Oregon. A 15-year-old Indian girl wanders into a whorehouse looking for men to kill the monster that lives in the ice caves under the basement of Miss Hawkline's house. Armed with a trunkful of guns, two men set off in search of the Hawkline Monster. What follows is a series of unusual and often comic encounters in this parody of two literary genres."—Publisher

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