Uncle Bill: A Tale of Two Kids and a Cowboy
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1932. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 240pp. Orange cloth over boards, with black ink stamped titles on the backstrip and front board, and a black ink stamped vignette on the front board. Spine and boards moderately bumped and rubbed at the edges. Staining to the rear board. Bookseller's ticket on the rear pastedown. Very Good Minus. Item #67682
Illustrated by the author. Signed by Will James, with the date "32," on the front flyleaf.
Newberry Medal award-winning author "Will James" was born Joseph-Ernest-Nepthali Dufault in Quebec Province, Canada. His entry in "Artists of the American West" by Doris Ostrander Dawdy states, "In San Francisco, James had the good fortune to interest Harold Von Schmidt and Maynard Dixon in his cowboy drawings. They gave him financial assistance and helped him get a job with Sunset magazine. From there he went to New York where he wrote and illustrated for Scribner's. In 1924 his first book was published. It was followed by 19 others and many short stories, bringing him lasting fame as a cowboy artist and writer."
Price: $350.00