The Virginian a Horseman of the Plains
New York: The MacMillan Co, 1902. First Edition. Octavo. Item #023660
First printing in April. 504 pp., (6) pp. publisher's ads, illustrated by Arthur I. Keller, and dedicated to his very close friend Theodore Roosevelt. The story of a young cowboy known only as the Virginian, who travels through the Wyoming Territory of the 1870s. He begins his life as a cattle ranch hand who becomes a distinguished tough foreman. He details his life as a cowboy in the rustic land of Montana. Bound in tan cloth lettered and ruled in black and red, centrally decorated in black and red with a lariat and gun in a holster, spine lettered and decorated in red and black outlined in gilt, a very good copy with a light wear along the upper joint, some soiling to covers, corners somewhat worn with two corners bumped,and slight crease to upper corners of title page and frontispiece, some scattered foxing. From the library of Fletcher Ferris Ryer (1861-1911), a California lawyer.
Price: $575.00