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Hard cover, small folio, in red cloth covered boards with "Indian basket" illustration blocked to top board (the image reproduced the subjects's 1902 title of the same name--see our item no. 8950). Taupe endpapers, xii, 98 [2] pp. Limited edition of 400 copies, first edition, stated colophon. CONDITION: Fine, but lacking slipcase. **A short yet revealing biography of the California-transplanted Englishman George Wharton James (1858-1923), a misunderstood eccentric genius who led a colorful, rather bohemian life. Author and photographer of books on such various topics on western lore and history, ethnography, as well as a self-help manual and guide to after-dinner speaking, he was also a one-time Methodist minister who once worked a circuit in the rough western mining towns of Nevada, in a career beset by small-town scandal and re-invention. Includes a bibliographical checklist for the Author's 78 books and other publications, as well as a secondary bibliography for the researcher or collector of this interesting gentleman. PROVENANCE: Ex-libris Joseph C. Houghteling, California newspaper publisher and political activist. Book Club of California Publication, No.195.
Ref: FINE 9298
$75.00