The Old Mirage Salesman: A Whimsical Desert Digest of Refreshing Nonsense: Heralding the Life of the Southwest's foremost story-telling Desert Rat, Harry Oliver 1888-1999. That type louse turned those two sixes over. Editor, Humorist, Historian, Publicist, Pioneer, Philosopher, Prospector, Showman, Builder, Hermit, and Secessionist

  • SIGNED Hardcover
  • Palm Springs: The Printery, 1952
By Oliver, Harry; Mary Alice Ballenger; Amy Fern Roessel
Palm Springs: The Printery, 1952. Autographed limited edition, first printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Poor. SIGNED. 111pp. Octavo [22 cm] Tan cloth over boards. Toning to endpapers. Previous owner's ink stamp in two places on the limitation page. In a tattered dust jacket, with a large loss from the bottom edge. A book made up of stories and pictures taken from Harry Oliver's newspaper, "The Desert Rat Scrap Book." Number 488 in an edition of 2000. Signed by Harry Oliver on the limitation page. Additionally inscribed by Oliver below his signature.

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