Ben Warman

J. J. Little & Ives Company, 1917. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. SIGNED. 331pp. Duodecimo [19.5 cm] Olive green cloth over boards, with a pictorial paper label on the front cover. The extremities are bumped, and the cloth along the top edge of the rear board is slightly frayed. A newspaper photograph of the author has been mounted to the front pastedown, resulting in a corresponding dark patch on the opposite page, where the author's inscription is written. Winter, a former member of the United States House of Representatives, wrote the lyrics to "Wyoming," the official song for the state. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: To______. Compliments and best wishes of the author, Charles E. Winter, Casper, Wyo., Dec. 11, 1917.