Author: Hinkle, James Fielding
Title: Early Days of a Cowboy on the Pecos
Description: Roswell, New Mexico, 1937. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED TO 35 COPIES. Paperback. Off-white stapled wraps with black lettering and illustration, measuring 5" x 7"; 35 pp.; illustration. This is an extremely rare first edition of this book. From the DJ of the 1965 reprint, we find.." One of the scarcest and best accounts of early cowboy life in New Mexico..James F. Hinkle (1864-1951) was Governor of New Mexico in 1923. He was a cowboy in the Pecos River valley near Roswell in the years following 1885. In 1937 Hinkle wrote this story of his ranch years and privately printed 35 copies of the little book as a gift to friends. It has been given a high rating by bibliographers who have compiled lists of important books on the Southwest including Ramon Adams, Wright Howes, and J.C. Dykes." Adams calls its "a very rare book, it is said to have been issued in an edition of only thirty-five copies," and Graff notes that the information on the limitation was "received from the author's widow though Herbert Brayer." Adams Herd 1041; Graff 1898; Howes H507. VG (Wraps have some light toning and some light foxing and smudging; title page has some light toning at the top-left corner; the remainder of the book is clear; binding is solid.) .

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