James, Will (1892-1942) Lone Cowboy. My Life Story.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1930.
Limited edition, octavo, one of 250 copies, each with an original ink drawing signed and dated by the author, portrait frontispiece and numerous printed text illustrations by James; the original drawing in this copy depicting a horse travois with a baby on board, the horse standing idle; bound before the frontis; bound in brown and green publisher's cloth, gilt stamped brown leather spine label; light foxing to title and frontis; a touch of sunning to spine, label chipped, minor fading to boards, some spots to edges; accompanied by the much-damaged and fragmentary original slipcase; 8 1/4 x 5 1/2 in.
Author of the Newbery Award-winning Smoky the Cowhorse, James went on to publish this stylized "autobiography" which, as it turned out, was completely fictional.
