Item #21767 West Wind,The Life Story of Joesph Reddeford Walker, Knight of the Golden Horseshoe. Percy H. Booth.
West Wind,The Life Story of Joesph Reddeford Walker, Knight of the Golden Horseshoe
West Wind,The Life Story of Joesph Reddeford Walker, Knight of the Golden Horseshoe
West Wind,The Life Story of Joesph Reddeford Walker, Knight of the Golden Horseshoe
West Wind,The Life Story of Joesph Reddeford Walker, Knight of the Golden Horseshoe

West Wind,The Life Story of Joesph Reddeford Walker, Knight of the Golden Horseshoe

Los Angeles: Privately Printed by the Author for His Friends, 1934.

Hardcover. Very good. First edition, one of just 100 copies issued. 109 pp + bibliography and folding map, with illustrations by Lawrence A. Patterson. Bound in quarter leather over paper-covered boards. Corners bumped, some scuffing to leather, internally clean and sound. Signed by Booth and dated August 1, 1934, on the front flyleaf, and with a tipped in letter from Seattle businessman George O. Brehm, saying "I think a lot of this book," and giving it to a friend or acquaintance with the hope that "it will fall into the hands of some collector, to whom it will mean still more than it does to me." Howes W-165: "Presents all available information on an eminent figure of the early fur-trade era, the leader, in 1836, of the first trapping expedition into California over the Sierras.

Item #21767

Price: $300.00

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