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JAMES, WILL. 1892-1942. Uncle Bill: A Tale of Two Kids and a Cowboy. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1932. image 1
JAMES, WILL. 1892-1942. Uncle Bill: A Tale of Two Kids and a Cowboy. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1932. image 2
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JAMES, WILL. 1892-1942.
Uncle Bill: A Tale of Two Kids and a Cowboy. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1932.

5 December 2019, 10:00 EST
New York

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JAMES, WILL. 1892-1942.

Uncle Bill: A Tale of Two Kids and a Cowboy. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1932.
8vo. Publisher's pictorial orange cloth printed in black, original pictorial dust jacket, minor wear to cloth, front fly pasted down to front cover, chipping to corners of jacket.

FIRST EDITION, THE VERY RARE FIRST STATE, with illustration of Scootie's tent to p 181. "After only a few of that first state were issued, some long-gone and unimaginative art editor must have ordered a change to a galloping horse running to catch his bunch and having nothing to do with the immediate text. Maybe he couldn't read! ... The tent picture is never to be seen again! That first state is very rare" (Frazier, p 64). The first of the three Uncle Bill Books.

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