Author: SANTEE, ROSS
Title: The Rummy Kid Goes Home and Other Stories of the Southwest
Description: New York: Hastings House, 1965. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0803863063. Illustrated by Ross Santee. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. There is some light smearing to the lettering on the spine of the book. The dust jacket is mostly clean and bright, but has several sem-closed and closed edge tears. "Born in Thornburg, Iowa, Santee's boyhood ambition was to become an artist and cartoonist. He studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, but in early manhood found no demand for his work. Unemployed and discouraged, he drifted westward to central Arizona in 1915. The Grand Canyon State had been admitted to the Union only three years earlier, and major cattle spreads were still hiring frontiersmen to serve as cowboys. The Eastern artist found that he could function as a horse wrangler, and began to put pen to paper to depict his new life. His Western-themed drawings were bought by magazines such as Arizona Highways, and he was given commissions by book publishers. His career as an illustrator moved from failure to commercial success, and he married Eve Farrell in 1926 and established residences in both Arizona and his wife's state of Delaware. He wrote Arizona-themed mass-market stories and novels in line with the themes of the works he illustrated. Critics classify his work as in line with literary realism rather than romanticism. " (from Wikipedia). Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket .
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Title: The Rummy Kid Goes Home and Other Stories of the Southwest
Description: New York: Hastings House, 1965. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0803863063. Illustrated by Ross Santee. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. There is some light smearing to the lettering on the spine of the book. The dust jacket is mostly clean and bright, but has several sem-closed and closed edge tears. "Born in Thornburg, Iowa, Santee's boyhood ambition was to become an artist and cartoonist. He studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, but in early manhood found no demand for his work. Unemployed and discouraged, he drifted westward to central Arizona in 1915. The Grand Canyon State had been admitted to the Union only three years earlier, and major cattle spreads were still hiring frontiersmen to serve as cowboys. The Eastern artist found that he could function as a horse wrangler, and began to put pen to paper to depict his new life. His Western-themed drawings were bought by magazines such as Arizona Highways, and he was given commissions by book publishers. His career as an illustrator moved from failure to commercial success, and he married Eve Farrell in 1926 and established residences in both Arizona and his wife's state of Delaware. He wrote Arizona-themed mass-market stories and novels in line with the themes of the works he illustrated. Critics classify his work as in line with literary realism rather than romanticism. " (from Wikipedia). Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket .
Keywords: 0803863063 Modern Fiction First Edition Ross Santee Short Stories Western Americana art Realism Cowboys Modern Fiction Firsts
Price: US$ 30.00 Seller: S. Howlett-West Books
- Book number: 37588
- Book number: 37588
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