THE MISSISSIPPI HAWK by Oscar J. Friend London: Hammond, Hammond Co. Ltd. (1950). First U.K. edition, first printing. Foxing to the page edges, otherwise a near fine copy in green boards; in a very mildly age-toned, very lightly rubbed pictorial dust jacket with a small sticker scar to the upper front panel. Allan Campbell, the son of wealthy Southern planter, accidentally shoots a judge and becomes a fugitive from justice. Oscar Jerome Friend (1897-1963) is chiefly remembered as a pulp writer producing novels in the horror, western, science fiction and detective fiction genres. OUR STORE FOR MORE GREAT BOOKS THANKS!