BINGHAM: Fighting Artist by Lew Larkin Kansas City, Missouri: Burton Publishing Company, Inc., Publisher, (1954). First edition. Inscribed "To Jim Corbett with sincere regards" and SIGNED by Larkin to the front end-paper. A biography of George Caleb Bingham [1811-1879], the Missouri Luminist artist whose works hang permanently in major museums, and who was also an activist, a soldier, a Union Captain, an influential politician, a fighter against the Ku Klux Klan, an abolitionist, a Missouri delegate, a long time Missouri State Treasurer, and more. Light age-toning to the end-papers as usual, else very nearly fine in blue linen with embossed white and red titles, and a depiction of guns and artist pallet in red to the front cover, and with embossed red and white titles to the spine; in a slightly rubbed very good plus dust jacket with nicks and short tears, some very short shelf-edge tears, and a one inch tear to the upper rear panel; original printed $4.00 price still intact to the rear inner flap. PLEASE VIEW OUR STORE FOR MORE GREAT FIRST EDITION BOOKS THANKS!