Matanza

N.p. N.p., Circa 1979. Vintage xerographically duplicated manuscript for the 1979 Western novel, housed in a lightweight beige cardboard box. With manuscript ink annotations to the box noting the title of the novel and the name of author Peter Gentry, and extensive copied annotations to the script throughout, noting substantive and editorial revisions.

The author's third book, ultimately published by Fawcett Gold Medal in 1979 as a paperback original, wherein a rich young woman hires a hard boiled, hard-drinking detective to find the gang of Mexican outlaws who have kidnapped her husband and son.

Set in Mexico.

Unbound but with ordered leaves. Title page present, with credits for author Peter Gentry. 479 leaves, with last page of text numbered 436. Xerographic duplication, rectos only. Pages Very Good plus.

Collation available on request.

[Book #147313]