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Lot 452
[AMERICAN COWBOYS]. JAMES, Will (1892–1942). Uncle Bill: A ...
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[AMERICAN COWBOYS]. JAMES, Will (1892?1942).?Uncle Bill: A Tale of Two Kids and a Cowboy.?New York and London: Charles Scribner?s Sons, 1932. 8vo. Numerous plates and in text illustrations by the author. Original orange pictorial cloth stamped in black; original price?clipped dust jacket (spine panel gently sunned, few tiny chips at extreme ends and corners). Provenance: John Joseph Schumacher (bookplate). FIRST EDITION with Scribner?s ?A? and seal on copyright, second state with the galloping horse illustration on p. 181 (Frazier calls the first state showing Scottie?s tent ?very rare? with only a few copies known). INSCRIBED BY JAMES on front free endpaper and dated in the year of publication: ?To Jackie, Will James ?32?. Frazier, p. 64.
