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Joys of the Trail [INSCRIBED BY GARLAND WITH ORIGINAL SILVER GELATIN PRINT]
Chicago: The Bookfellows, 1935. Second edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 46pp. Original cream paper-covered boards with black lettering on blue-framed paper panel of cover, black lettering on paper panel of spine; protected by modern mylar. Publisher's device in blue on title page. With blue initials. Inscribed by Hamlin Garland to Alice Rotendon on front free endpaper, with silver gelatin print of Garland's daughter and himself noting "...on my 75th birthday."
"What is a trail? On its material side it is a path, capable only of receiving horses or men in single file. It is only twelve or fourteen inches wide, and may be merely smoothing of the sod; or it may be a deep sca r in the solid rock, the record of centuries of travel, like the burro trails of Laguna and Walpi... the evidence of cooperation among men." (Page 7).
Hamlin was a multitalented American novelist best known for his fiction about Midwestern farmers. Light smudging of boards and block lightly age-toned. Very good condition. Item #54949
Price: $375.00