Neighborhood Frontiers: Desert Country, Puget Sound Country, Yucatan Peninsula, Yaqui River, Barranca Country

Author: GARDNER, Erle Stanley
Title: Neighborhood Frontiers: Desert Country, Puget Sound Country, Yucatan Peninsula, Yaqui River, Barranca Country
Publication: New York: William Morrow, (1954)
Edition: First Edition

Description: Hardcover. Octavo, 272pp., illustrated. A crisp, clean copy, very good or better, with mild edgewear. In a fair dust jacket, with a large piece missing from the top of the spine. SIGNED and warmly and lengthily INSCRIBED by Gardner on the half-title page to his good friend Leo Roripaugh: "To Leo, friend, neighbor, fishing and hunting companion-with all my heart, yours, Erle. 1959." Gardner was close with the Rorpiaugh family in Temecula, CA, who lived near his ranch there. Laid-in is a small leaflet, representing the funeral program for Gardner, who died in March 1970. A previous bookseller's description laid in here notes that the book came from Louis Roripaugh's estate; he had a brother named Leo. Though Gardner is best-known for his Perry Mason novels and short stories, he was also a gifted writer on the landscape of the southwest. Very good + / fair.

Seller ID: 11840

Subject: Western Americana



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