Johnny Pye & the Fool-Killer
Weston, Vermont: The Countryman Press, 1938. Limited, Signed Edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 78pp. Slim octavo [23.5 cm] Blue cloth over boards. With prominent areas of fading to the spine and boards. With the publisher's band and in the publisher's mylar slipcase. The book's designer, Vrest Orton, has inscribed the book to Wallace Stegner on the front free endpaper. Stegner was a prolific author of fiction and historical nonfiction set mainly in the American West. His influence on American writers is enormous. He was often referred to as the "Dean of Western Writers." Good. Item #68070
Printed in Janson on Archer paper from the design of Vrest Orton. It is signed by both author and artist and is limited to 750 numbered copies of which 700 copies are for sale. This copy is number 711. Signed by Stephen Vincent Benét and Charles Child on the limitation page.
Price: $100.00