Breckinridge Elkins Rough Trails 1 (paperback)

First Cuts: The Drafts and Fragments – Breckinridge Elkins is a four-volume set of books (over 1200 pages!) collecting every surviving draft Robert E. Howard wrote featuring Breckinridge Elkins, including the short stories and the novel A Gent from Bear Creek.

The first volume in a four-part series from the REH Foundation Press collects all the drafts for Howard’s drafts for the first six of the Breckinridge Elkins stories. All from Howard’s original typescripts, manuscripts, and carbons. Howard’s raw text, including typos and weird spellings, is preserved. Footnotes describe where Howard inserted text either by typing in between lines or by hand.

For a full table of contents go to reh.world.

| Volume 1 | Volume 2 | Volume 3 | Volume 4 |

For the first volume, Howard scholar Patrice Louinet kindly allowed me to use an essay he wrote in 2012, slightly updated. The perfect essay for this first volume.

See also: First Cuts: the Drafts and Fragments of Breckinridge Elkins Boxed Set. This is a 4-volume set where each volume features a dust jacket with gold foil stamping and sprayed edges. Printed on demand in the UK.

To order the regular paperback edition – Volume 1 of 4, click below: