To the Foot of the Rainbow; a Tale of Twenty-five Hundred Miles of Wandering on Horseback Through the Southwest Enchanted Land
New York; (1927): The Century Co. First Edition. Octavo. Item #024190
First printing, frontispiece, 276 pp., illustrated with photographic images. The author wrote this story as a young college student who was forced to withdraw from Princeton by a physical breakdown. He then decides to travel by horseback through the Southwest; then after a month of lonely wanderings over mountain trails and through Mexican and Pueblo villages, he meets a young New Yorker which is likewise in search of health and adventure. They join forces traveling through the beautiful country of the Southwest, for which the author has the eye of an artist. He gives pictures and descriptions of Pueblo dwellings, strange Indian dances, prehistoric ruins, dangerous mountain passes and cloud capped mountain peaks and the awesome splendor of the ultimate goal, The Rainbow Natural Bridge, which these two young wanderers are the first, save for the discoverers, to reach by the old perilous Kayenta trail. A fine bright copy bound in green cloth lettered and decorated in black and purple, spine lettering gilt, endpapers are maps, in a very good dust jacket lettered and decorated in red, black and purple, a closed tear to bottom edge of front panel, some chipping to spine ends, and a very small wrinkle to very bottom edge of rear panel. A thin, faint damp stain is visible along the front and rear folds, and a small crease near head.
Price: $325.00