Author: WISTER, OWEN
Title: The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains (School Edition, New Pocket Classics Series)
Description: New York: The Macmillan Company, 1944. Hardcover. A school edition of Owen Wister's classic western novel. The story is centered around a cowboy who attempts to charm the new schoolteacher; his life gets complicated when he suspects his good friend of rustling cattle. Edited by James Fleming Hosic, revised by H. Y. Moffett. Includes 12 black & white illustrations by Clarence Rowe. Per the editor's introduction, "'In the Virginian one comes at last upon the real West.'" An entry in publisher's New Pocket Classics series. --- In full red cloth-covered boards with spine titling in gilt. Volume lacks a dust jacket. --- A clean, tightly-bound copy, though with inked notations to introduction, prior owner's signature, dated January 1945, to front paste-down and chafing to cover extremities.; 16mo - 6 to 7 in. tall; xvii, 567 pages. Very Good with no dust jacket .

Keywords: >>Classic Fiction, Literature >>Illustrated Classics