Item #016879 THE VIRGINIAN. A HORSEMAN OF THE PLAINS. Owen WISTER.

THE VIRGINIAN. A HORSEMAN OF THE PLAINS

Los Angeles: Limited Editions Club, 1951. William Moyers. Hardcover. Quarto (7" x 10-1/4") bound in full natural linen with a leather spine label and a gilt-decorated leather vignette on the front cover. Designed by Saul Marks and printed at the Plantin Press. Introduction by Struthers Burt. Illustrated with pen drawings by William Moyers hand-colored at the studio of Walter Fischer. One of the sentences in this novel of the West has become part of American folk-lore: "When you call me that, smile!" Copy #39 of 1500 SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page. Monthly Letter laid in. Bookplate on the front pastedown; spine just a tad darkened. Near Fine in a Fine slipcase. Item #016879

Price: $100.00

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