The American Cowboy

1942: Charles Scribner's Sons. First Edition. Octavo. First printing, from the library of Joe Beeler with his bookplate and designated as book number 5. 273pp., written and illustrated by the author. Through the three characters who dominate this vivid, eventful and detailed story the reader sees the whole history of the cowboy in America unfold. Full of action but also crammed with information that only a man born to the range could know and impart. a handsome copy bound in rd cloth lettered in dark blue, spin lettering dark blue. Previous owner's name, in clipped pictorial dust jacket with chip to upper edge and foot with a few clear tape mends to underside of jacket. (Inventory #: 019971)