$1,000 REWARD FOR THE APPREHENSION OF BLACK BART, Po8 de Black Bart; Charles E. Boles - 1939

Berkeley: The Archetype Press, 1939. Limited First Edition. Soft cover. As New. Not a book. Limited to 111 copies. Fine press broadside 12 3/4" x 17 1/2", printed by hand. #4 of The Broadside Club Series, this one published Feb. 18, 1939. Masthead with classic Western type fonts. Two columns of print: "The Collected Works of B. B." (selections from the poetry of the famous California stagecoach robber whose real name was Charles E. Boles, including, "I've labored long and hard for bread / for honor and for riches / But on my corns too long you've tred / You fine haired sons of Bitches".). Second column is "Ambrose Bierce On Black Bart's Release From San Quentin" first published in the San Francisco Examiner Jan. 29, 1888. A fine unmatted & unframed piece.