JAMES, Will:
Lone Cowboy: My Life Story - signed or inscribed book
2015, ISBN: 24b44ce5b7c0d45c7b637b20c7d59858
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2015-01-01. New. Ships with Tracking Number! INTERNATIONAL WORLDWIDE Shipping available. May be re-issue. Buy with confidence, excellent customer service!, 2015-01-01, 6, London: Smith, Elder, & Co, 1900-6. Cloth. Very Good. 8" by 6". Various. A seven volume set of 'The Life and Works of Charlotte Bronte and Her Sisters' illustrated throughout, with introduction and notes by Mrs Humphry Ward and Clement K. Shorter With eleven illustrations each in Volumes I-V, eight in Volume VI and seventeen in Volume VII. The Brontisters, Charlotte (April 21, 1816 March 31, 1855), Emily (July 30, 1818 December 19, 1848) and Anne (January 17, 1820 May 28, 1849), were English writers of the 1840s and 1850s. Their novels caused a sensation when they were first published and were subsequently accepted into the canon of great English literature. The sisters grew up in Haworth, near Keighley in West Yorkshire (the region has come to be known as Brontountry), surviving their mother and two elder sisters into adulthood. Charlotte and Emily had written compulsively from early childhood and were first published, at their own expense, in 1846 as poets under the pseudonyms Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell. The book attracted little attention, selling only two copies. The sisters returned to prose, producing a novel each in the following year. Charlotte's Jane Eyre, Emily's Wuthering Heights and Anne's Agnes Grey were released in 1847 after their long search to secure publishers. The novels attracted great critical attention and steadily became best-sellers, but the sisters' careers were shortened by ill-health. Emily died the following year before she could complete another novel, and Anne published her second novel, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, in 1848, a year before her death. Upon publication Jane Eyre received the most critical and commercial success of all the Brontorks, continuing to this day. Charlotte's Shirley appeared in 1849 and was followed by Villette in 1853. Her first novel, The Professor, was published posthumously in 1857. The first biography of Charlotte was written by her friend Elizabeth Gaskell and published in 1857. It helped create the myth of a doomed family living in romantic solitude. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (1810 1865), often referred to simply as Mrs. Gaskell, was an English novelist and short story writer during the Victorian era. She is perhaps best known for her biography of Charlotte BrontIn full cloth binding with gilt lettering. Externally, smart. There is some mild wear to the extremities including slight bumping to the corners and tops and tails of the spines, minor rubbing and marks to the boards. Internally generally firmly bound, although hinges are slightly strained. Pages are clean and bright with the occasional handling mark and isolated spot. Very Good, Smith, Elder, & Co, 1900-6, 3, The First UK printing published by The Golden Cockerel Press in 1941. Number '12' of 30 specially bound copies. The BOOK is in Very Good++ or better condition. Original full blue morocco (by Sangorski and Sutcliffe with their monogram to the lower front pastedown), spine lettered in gilt, four Chinese characters in gilt on the front cover, top edge gilt with others untrimmed. The binding remains tight. Some rubbing to the spine folds with a little light offsetting to the end papers. A couple of minor nicks to the untrimmed edge of the front free end paper. A small bookseller's label (Sotherans) to the lower front pastedown. Free from inscriptions and bookplates. Lacking the plain card slipcase. All five full page copper-plate engravings by Denis Tegetmeier (Eric Gill's son-in-law) are present and in fine condition. Additionally and only in this special edition, the collotype reproductions of Eric Gill's original drawings are complete and present at the rear of the book. This special edition was printed on handmade paper and bound in full morocco. The 'ordinaries' edition of 320 copies were printed on mould made paper, bound in quarter morocco and lacked the collotype reproductions to the rear. Eric Gill composed these images during the last week of his life and they were subsequently engraved by his son-in-law Denis Tegetmeier. With an introduction by Arthur Waley. 'In 'More Memoirs of an Aesthete' (p88), Acton says that the edition was sold out on publication and in a letter to Sandford (Golden Cockerel Press) dated 26 March 1951 he recalls he defrayed the production costs himself. Beryl de Zoete, anthropologist, to whom the book is dedicated, was for over forty years until her death in 1962, the companion of the orientalist Arthur Waley who contributes the preface' (Woolmer p.43). The book is protected in a loose archival Mylar cover. Loosely inserted is the publisher's original four page prospectus. A very scarce title with as far as I can tell, only two copies having appeared at auction in the last twenty years. A very handsome production. More images available on request. Ashton Rare Books welcomes direct contact., The Golden Cockerel Press, 1941, 3, Edinburgh: John Grant, 1924. First Thus. Twelve octavo volumes (8 1/8 x 5 1/2 inches; 205 x 140 mm.). Handsomely bound ca. 1960 by [Rivière] for Henry Sotheran in three-quarter red calf over red cloth boards ruled in blind. Spines decoratively tooled in gilt in compartments, two blue and green morocco lettering labels, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. Frontispieces and plates. Half-titles and title-pages printed in red and black. Seven of the green spine labels are faded, otherwise near fine.The Thornton Edition was first published in 1905, named for the village on the outskirts of Bradford, West Yorkshire best known as being the birthplace of the Brontës. The moorlands of that area "had a profound influence on the writing of Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Bronte...at their home the children created a rich imaginary world. Any books that came their way were eagerly devoured, and they produced their own books as well" (Bronte Society). As the sisters rose to adulthood, their novels began to focus on the complex emotional lives of women from all walks of life -- from orphans to governesses to heiresses -- but with the greatest emphasis on those whose educations and livelihoods most reflected their own. With clear-sightedness, they used their knowledge of gendered, economic, and social constraints to develop their best material. Again, the moorlands of their upbringing affected their writing. Anne's work was like a still day before a storm. And "if Charlotte's novels keep up a stiff wind, Emily's one novel is a thunderstorm. Their characters...have such a gust of life that they transcend reality" (Dean). Publishing under gender neutral pseudonyms of Currer Bell, Ellis Bell, and Acton Bell, the three talented authors were able to release their works to the public without the kind of criticism that fell on women of the time. It was with the publication of Anne's second novel, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, that the women were forced to reveal their true identities when an unscrupulous publisher attempted to use Currer Bell's name to sell another, less successful author's works. The literary fame that came with the Brontes' revelation led only to a shortlived happiness, as all three died at early ages" (Bronte Society)., John Grant, 1924, 0, With an Exceptional Original Drawing by James JAMES, Will. Lone Cowboy: My Life Story. Illustrated by the Author. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1930. First edition. One of 250 copies with an original James drawing bound in on thicker stock. The drawing in this copy is of a cowboy riding a running horse. The drawing is nearly half the page and has exceptional detail. The drawing is signed and dated in the lower right corner. Octavo (8 3/16 x 5 3/4 inches; 208 x 145 mm). [i]-xii, 431, [5] pp. With photographic frontispiece portrait, two facsimile letters, thirty-five full page James illustrations (included in the pagination) and numerous small drawings. Original smooth and shiny green cloth with a brown cloth spine. Original brown morocco spine label, lettered in gilt. Fore-edge uncut. Front inner hinge just barely starting. In green cloth slipcase with brown paper spine label. Overall, an excellent, about fine copy with a wonderful drawing. "[Will James, a] western author and artist, was born Joseph Ernest Nephtali Dufault in St. Nazaire de Acton, Quebec, Canada, the son of Jean Dufault and Josephine (maiden name unknown). When the Dufault family moved to Montreal, he attended a Catholic school and his father ran a hotel, in which the boy heard stories of trappers that he later used to fabricate parts of his Lone Cowboy: My Life Story...Lone Cowboy, his partly faked autobiography, hoodwinked the vast American buying public, and even his wife, and was a 1930 selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club. (Its dishonesty was not exposed until 1967.) Although he wrote eighteen more books, James slowly lost his self-assurance, sense of well-being, and artistic inspiration. He constantly feared being found out as a prevaricating autobiographer." (American National Biography). Howes. Streeter. HBS 67870. $4,500, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1930, 0<
