Old Jules

MARI SANDOZ

Publication: Little, Brown, and Company, 1935, Boston

First edition, fifth printing. Thick 8vo. Inked gift inscription by the author on the front fly leaf. Decorated cloth, titles and decoration stamped in blue on the front cover and spine, decorated front and rear endpapers, x [4], 424 pp., foreword, illustrated. "Old Jules is unquestionably Mari Sandoz’s masterpiece. This portrait of her pioneer father grew out of 'the silent hours of listening behind the stove or the wood box, when it was assumed, of course, that I was asleep in bed. So it was that I heard the accounts of the hunts,' Sandoz recalls. 'Of the fights with the cattlemen and the sheepmen, of the tragic scarcity of women, when a man had to ‘marry anything that got off the train, of the droughts, the storms, the wind and isolation. But the most impressive stories were those told me by Old Jules himself.'" Tiny tear to cloth at head of spine, else a very good copy in dust jacket with light wear to the spine ends, corners and extremities, with a small closed tear to middle of spine panel.

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