McAleenan, Joseph:

$6,500 · Offered by William Reese Company · No longer available

LEAVES FROM A WYOMING DIARY KEPT BY.... Inscribed to "Doctor William L. Ettinger, Superintendent of Schools" and signed by the author: "Joseph McAleenan, February 7th, 1924." From an edition of thirty copies, "produced by a special photographic process. Each of these autographed by the author." This appears to be one of the scarcest of McAleenan's works, all of which were produced in small editions and are highly prized. It bears a pictorial frontispiece "The Bronco" with a verse. The text describes hunting trips in Wyoming, mainly in the Wind River country, between 1895 and 1910, during the period when the author apparently had a Wyoming ranch. Included is a remarkable and bloody account of a battle between grizzlies and hunting dogs, as well as poetry by McAleenan's friend, Joe Magill, and other contributors. McAleenan, a well-known New York diamond dealer, was an avid sportsman and took many trips to the west to hunt and fish, privately printing his accounts of these expeditions in small numbers for the participants and his close friends. Not in Phillips or Heller.

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