THE LONGHORNS.
Dobie, J. Frank:
Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1941. vii-xxiii,388pp. plus numerous illustrations by Tom Lea. Original pictorial cloth. Presentation inscriptions on front free endpaper and half title. Bookplate of Donald Bloch on front pastedown, with an envelope addressed to him with enclosed materials laid in. Near fine. First edition, trade issue. Warmly inscribed to both Donald Bloch and V.M. Yost by the author. Donald Bloch, a longtime Denver bookseller, most likely had Dobie sign the copy he had acquired with the inscription to Yost. The laid-in envelope includes a book review by Dobie and a small press work commissioned by Jack and Rosalie Reynolds. The work entreats recipients to do what they can to bring rain in time for Christmas, so that Dobie may be relieved of the melancholy that a persistent drought has caused him. "Dobie himself described this book as a 'history of the Longhorn breed, psychology of stampedes; days of maverickers and mavericks; stories of individual lead steers and outlaws of the range; stories about rawhide and many other related subjects. The book attempts to reveal the blend made by man, beast, and range.' One of the true classics of range cattle literature" - Reese. SIX-SCORE 32. ADAMS HERD 694. DOBIE, p.102. DYKES, KID 295. DYKES, LEA 135,136. GRAFF 1099. HOWES D375. 44&44 18. McVICKER A9a(2).
(Item ID: WRCAM27872) $500.00