The Virginian: A Horseman on the Plains.
WISTER, Owen.
The Virginian: A Horseman on the Plains.
“When a man ain't got no ideas of his own, he'd ought to be kind o' careful who he borrows 'em from": First Edition of Owen Wister's The Virginian; Signed by Him
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1902.
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Item Number: 140449
First edition of the first true fictional western ever written, with a signed card tipped into the half-title page which reads, “Owen Wister Fontainebleau, July 26, 1921.” Octavo, original tan cloth stamped in red, black and gilt, with eight full-page illustrations by Arthur Keller. In near fine condition. An exceptionally fresh example of this classic novel.
Owen Wister’s novel of Wyoming cowpunchers “became one of the first mass-market bestsellers and stands as a defining text for America’s most durable hero— the cowboy… In a way, after The Virginian, there need never have been another western. In a way, there wasn’t” (Harvard Magazine). It has been the basis for several films, most notably in 1929, directed by Victor Fleming and starring Gary Cooper as The Virginian.
