first edition Hardcover
1922 · Indianapolis
by STRINGER, Arthur
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1922. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Moderate stain on the front panel, thus very good in an attractive, very good W.H.D. Koerner-designed dustwrapper with a couple of very small chips and a crease on the spine. Western novel has an impoverished society girl returning from Europe and going West to develop some land with her new husband. Basis for the Hugo Balin-directed silent film *The Prairie Wife* with Dorothy Devore, Herbert Rawlinson, and Boris Karloff in a small role as "Diego"! (Inventory #: 41318)