Jim Bludso of the Prairie Belle and Little Breeches...With Illustrations

by S. Eytinge, Jr. by John Hay

$275 · Offered by John Windle Antiquarian

First edition

Boston: James R. Osgood & Co., 1871. 8vo, 23 pp., 8 woodcut illustrations including frontis. Half green morocco, marbled paper boards, gilt title to backstrip, top edge gilt, original wrappers bound in. Very good copy. Bookplate of George Goodrich. § First edition, first issue. John Hay 1838-1905 was the 37th Secretary of State and served in Lincoln’s cabinet during the Civil War. This was John Hay’s first book, a narrative poem about a

• Binding: Leather

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