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Owen P. White. Them Was the Days. New York: Milton, Balch & Company, 1925....
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Owen P. White. Them Was the Days. New York: Milton, Balch & Company, 1925.8vo. Illustrated by Ross Santee. Original red pictorial cloth, stamped in black; cloth slipcase.
FIRST EDITION. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR on the front free endpaper: "Yes sir, Mr. J. C. Dykes, Them Was the Days!! / Owen P. White / Cutchogue, N.Y. / Jany 11-1943." ADDITIONALLY INSCRIBED BY THE ILLUSTRATOR, ROSS SANTEE, WITH THREE SMALL DRAWINGS (including one in color), first on the title-page: "For JC. Dykes / Ross Santee," below which he has drawn a Western town scene in ink; with an additional note on the illustrations inscribed to the recipient at the foot of the illustration list leaf; and with another original drawing opposite with a similar scene in ink and colored pencil, and another ink sketch on the half-title.
Condition: A little wear to spine ends and corners; front hinge cracked; rear hinge tender.
Provenance: J. C. Dykes (presentation inscription); purchased from Jeff Dykes Western Books, 23 November 1981. From the William A. Strutz Library.
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2024 December 11 Important English and American Literature: The William A. Strutz Library, Part II, Rare Books Signature® Auction #6300 (go to Auction Home page)
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