Scorpion, A Good Bad Horse

WILL JAMES

Publication: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1936, New York

First edition. 8vo. Salmon-colored cloth, titles in black on the front cover and spine, viii, 312 pp., introduction, illustrated by the author, color frontispiece by the author. This copy inscribed on the front pastedown sheet : "To Cal - (Godshall) / I hope it don't take a / horse like this Scorpion / to keep you on the straight / and narrow path and / close to home - / Scorpion and your / ulcers will keep you good - / even when you're judging / bathing beauties - / Bill James '37." Also stamped at the bottom of front pastedown sheet is the stamp of "Mr. & Mrs. C. H. Godshall, Ihmsen Ranch, Victorville, Cal." Also laid-in is an original Charles Scribners Sons book mark that lists Will James' Books of the Range. Lightly darkened at the front and rear endpapers due to bleed through of binder's glue else a good copy in price-clipped dust jacket with light wear to the spine ends and corners the extremities. It was at Cal Godshall's ranch that Will James died on Sept. 3rd, 1942.