# Is "Six-Guns and Saddle Leather" by Ramon F. Adams a First Edition?

> **Quick answer.** A first edition of Six-Guns and Saddle Leather by Ramon F. Adams (University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 1954) is identified by: University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 1954 — full title "Six-Guns and Saddle Leather: A Bibliography of Books and Pamphlets on Western Outlaws and Gunmen." LCCN 54-5939. The census claim is confirmed.

**Checklist — a true first has these:**
- University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 1954 — full title "Six-Guns and Saddle Leather: A Bibliography of Books and Pamphlets on Western Outlaws and Gunmen." LCCN 54-5939
- Collates xiii, 426 pp (some copies collated xiii, 426, [2]); approximately 1,132 annotated entries
- 17 facsimile illustrations of title pages
- The copyright page carries a stated "First edition"
- Oklahoma used no number line in this period, so a later printing would be identified by an added printing statement rather than by a line
- Bound in green cloth (described by dealers as green linen buckram) stamped in gilt, with a darker green spine label/panel
- Publisher imprint reads University of Oklahoma Press, Norman

| | |
|---|---|
| Author | Ramon F. Adams |
| Publisher | University of Oklahoma Press, Norman |
| Year | 1954 |
| True first | US edition |
| Format | Hardcover (trade) |
| Key point | University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 1954 — full title "Six-Guns and Saddle Leather: A Bibliography of Books and Pamphlets on Western… |
| Book-club edition exists? | No |

## Points of issue
University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 1954 — full title "Six-Guns and Saddle Leather: A Bibliography of Books and Pamphlets on Western Outlaws and Gunmen." LCCN 54-5939. Collates xiii, 426 pp (some copies collated xiii, 426, [2]); approximately 1,132 annotated entries; 17 facsimile illustrations of title pages; 25 cm. The copyright page carries a stated "First edition". Oklahoma used no number line in this period, so a later printing would be identified by an added printing statement rather than by a line. Bound in green cloth (described by dealers as green linen buckram) stamped in gilt, with a darker green spine label/panel. Jacket should be present and unclipped, with the price at the front flap. The single most reliable screen is the collation: 426 pp is the 1954 first; 808 pp is the 1969 revision or one of its reprints.

## Is this the true first?
The census claim is confirmed. This is a US-only first — no UK or foreign-language edition precedes it, so there is no precedence question. The 1969 "New Edition, Revised and Greatly Enlarged" (University of Oklahoma Press, Norman; xxv, 808 pp; 2,491 entries — more than twice the first; LCCN 69-16729) is a different edition, not a later printing of the 1954, and is collected separately as the working reference; a dealer describing a 1969 or later copy as a "first edition" means first thus. Both the 1954 and the 1969 are legitimately collected, and a complete Adams shelf holds both.

## Telling it from reprints & book-club editions
No book-club edition documented. Reprint tells, all of the 1969 revision rather than the 1954 first: the John T. Zubal, Inc. (Cleveland) 1982 reprint (xxv, 808 pp; ISBN 0-939738-06-6), catalogued by dealers as "first edition thus"; and the 1998 Dover Publications paperback (Mineola, N.Y.; xxiii, 808 pp; ISBN 0-486-40035-2; LCCN 97-49974), whose title-page verso states it is an unabridged republication of the 1969 Oklahoma edition. Any copy collating 808 pp, and any copy in wrappers, is not the 1954 first.

## Source
New Mexico Literacy Project — Is *Six-Guns and Saddle Leather* by Ramon F. Adams a first edition? https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/six-guns-and-saddle-leather
CC BY 4.0. Part of the Canonical First-Edition Points of Issue dataset (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/api/first-edition-titles.json). Last reviewed 2026-07-04.