Jun 20, 2013 - Sale 2319

Sale 2319 - Lot 299

Price Realized: $ 480
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
WISTER, OWEN. The Virginian. Illustrated by Arthur I. Keller. 8vo, original tan cloth decorated in red, black, and gilt, slightly askew, faint evidence of old dampstain on rear cover, spine ends and lower extremities with merest fraying; Bradley H. Martin bookplate on front pastedown. New York: Macmillan, 1902

Additional Details

first edition, first printing with "Set up and electrotyped April, 1902" on copyright page. One of the most important novels about the American West, and generally considered to be the first cowboy novel. Graff 4725.