Author: WISTER, Owen
Title: The Virginian. A Horseman of the Plains
Description: Los Angeles, Limited Editions Club, 1951. Hardcover. Quarto (7" x 10-1/4") bound in full natural linen with a leather spine label and a gilt-decorated leather vignette on the front cover. Designed by Saul Marks and printed at the Plantin Press. Introduction by Struthers Burt. Illustrated with pen drawings by William Moyers hand-colored at the studio of Walter Fischer. One of the sentences in this novel of the West has become part of American folk-lore: "When you call me that, smile!" Copy #39 of 1500 SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page. Monthly Letter laid in. Ill.: William Moyers. Bookplate on the front pastedown; spine just a tad darkened. Near Fine in a Fine slipcase .

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