The Return of Little Big Man

First edition. 8vo. Pp. xiv, 432, [2 (blank)]. Quarter-bound faux black cloth over tan paper boards, lettered in copper gilt to spine; deckled fore-edge. Dust jacket design by Leslie Goldman, featuring a sepia photograph by Nate Salsbury and a Henry Miller blurb to rear panel (priced $25 to front flap).

Jack Crabb, hero of Little Big Man (1964) and beloved chronicler of the Wild West, is back in the saddle again. This time he meets, drinks with, and rides with Bat Masterson, Annie Oakley, and Doc Holliday, and even accompanies Buffalo Bill Cody to afternoon tea with Queen Victoria. Part mischief, part historical fact, The Return of Little Big Man is Berger's sequel to his picaresque, third novel Little Big Man – "one of the very best novels of the decade and the very best ever about the American West." –New York Times Book Review