Oct 10, 2019 - Sale 2519

Sale 2519 - Lot 302

Price Realized: $ 1,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,800 - $ 2,500
JAMES, WILL. Lone Cowboy. My Life Story. Portrait frontispiece, numerous illustrations by the author. 8vo, publisher's 1/4 brown cloth over green buckram boards, leather spine label showing a few scratches and small nicks; original card slipcase with paper spine label, top panel split, spine and top edge browned, scattered abrading. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1930

Additional Details

limited issue, one of 250 copies, with an original ink drawing by james, signed by him and dated 1930 bound in at front. Depicts a cowboy with lasso regarding a presumably recalcitrant horse. Rare at auction with only one other copy traced (appearing twice) since 2005.