Bullets, Bottles and Gardenias (INSCRIBED)
Dallas, TX: South-West Press, (1935). First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author to B.W. Fairbanks. 8vo. [6], 258 pp. Photographic plates, including frontispiece. Burgundy-colored cloth with gilt lettering to front cover & spine; in publisher's Art Deco designed dustjacket. Slight foxing & offsetting to frontispiece else near fine in very good dustjacket (minor edgewear & rubbing to dustjacket & light fading to spine). Item #22781
An excellen memoir, by this American journalist who covered the entire cycle of the Mexican Revolution as an Associated Press correspondent with Pancho Villa’s army. Turner made the observation of the battle 1910 - 1911 about the innovative tactics of Madero's generals Orozco and Pancho Villa which forced the surrender of General Navarro's Mexican Army in May, 1911. The revolutionaries had recruited many of the Boer War veteran mercenaries, along with Giuseppe Garibaldi II, and even Tom Mix, famous Western movie star.
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