Books and Manuscripts

New York: Fox Duffield & Company, 1906. First edition, first issue (with p. 9 numbered). 8vo. 251, (1) pp. Presentation copy, amusingly inscribed by Remington on front paste-down in the year of publication: "My dear Newburry, I hope you won't have as much trouble reading this as I did writing it. Yours faithfully Frederic Remington New Rochelle, N.Y 1906." Illustrated by Remington. Publisher's red cloth-covered boards, stamped in yellow, illustrated cover label, spine and extremities unevenly faded, yellow on spine almost completely faded; top edge trimmed, other edges untrimmed; offsetting and remnants from now removed wrapper on front and rear endpapers; in quarter crimson levant and cloth fall-down-back box. Howes R-208

A handsome presentation copy of American painter Frederic Remington's first full-length novel, considered his "most effective and developed fiction" (Frederic Remington: A Biography, Peggy Samuels, p. 361). Begun in 1900, it was first serialized in Cosmopolitan magazine five years later, starting in November, 1905, and published in this book-form edition the following year.