John Bouldin's First Christmas On The Plains

J. EVETTS HALEY

Publication: George Autry, 1950, Amarillo

First edition. Folio. 32 x 24 cm cream colored, pictorial wrappers, n. p. [11 pp.], illustrated by Harold D. Bugbee and written by J. Evetts Haley. Signed by Haley and with a folded Christmas card that reads "Merry Christmas Evetts and Nita Haley" laid-in. Privately printed for the author and distributed as a Christmas greeting. This is the first of a series of Christmas greetings distributed to family and friends by the Haleys. It recounts Bouldin’s story of his first Christmas in a dugout in Kansas during a winter storm and the subsequent events leading up to that first Christmas morning. Lightly soiled on the front cover and with evidence of a faint top front corner fold, else a near fine copy.