Padre Ignacio or the Song of Temptation [Inscribed]

  • SIGNED
  • New York: Harper and Brothers, 1911
By WISTER, Owen
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1911. First Thus. First separate printing. 12mo (18cm). Light blue cloth with color pictorial paper onlay to front board; plain endpapers; [iv],[68]pp; frontispiece. Inscribed by Wister on front pastedown. General mild rubbing, but clean and sound: Very Good.

With a lengthy inscription in Wister's hand, in which he recounts the publication history of the text: "Written in 1899 + published in Harper's Magazine - later in the volume "The Jimmyjohn Boss." Published separately ten years later- Owen Wister Mar. 2. 1916." JOHNSON p.547. FPAA IV p.393.

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