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WISTER, Owen (1860–1938). The Virginian. A Horseman of the Plains. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1902.
8vo. 8 plates by Arthur I. Keller. Original tan cloth, front board and spine stamped in red, black, and gilt (spine toned and rubbed, some rubbing, soiling to boards, text toned, a few gutters over-opened); facsimile dust jacket.
FIRST EDITION of the first true fictional western that paved the way for Zane Grey and other western novelists. “Although a novel, this book probably created more impressions of what a cowboy was like – even among cowboys – than any other work, fact or fiction.” (Reese, Six Score 116). The basis of the 1946 film starring Joel McCrea and directed by Stuart Gilmore.