VERY GOOD MINUS CONDITION WITH NO DUST JACKET. W.J WATT WAS A SMALL PUBLISHER WITH FIRST EDITION REFLECTED IN LOGO ON TITLE PAGE. THERE IS NO DUST JACKET. EXPOSED PAGE EDGES ARE SOILED AND PAGES HAVE AGE RELATED PAPER TONING AS WELL AS DISCOLORATION AND OCCASIONAL SOILING SPOTS, LIKELY MOSTLY FINGERPRINTS. AUTHOR INSCRIPTION ON FRONT END PAPER. NO OTHER WRITING. NO TEARS, NO CREASES.
DANE COOLIDGE (1873-1940) was a western novelist, wildlife photographer, and naturalist who traveled extensively through the American Southwest, visiting with its varied inhabitants, observing round-ups and other aspects of western life, and becoming a recognized authority on western ways
1- There are tiny holes in the rear end paper at hinge, possible wormholes. (Photo 11) It does appear that four of those worms continued through the cloth on rear hinge leaving four tiny holes.
2- Some soiling and rubbing to exterior surface of boards (Photo 1 & 12)
3- Signed on front end paper (Photo 2)
4- Illustrated by George W. Gage but there are only three.
5- Binding slightly slanted and there is soiling to exposed page edges (Photo 8)
6- Occasional interior soiling, sometimes just discoloration and sometimes what appear to have been small crumbs (Photo 9 & 10)
Though Coolidge’s first novels, Hidden Water (1910) and The Texican (1911), were about cattle ranching, Rimrock Jones is one of several with prospecting and mining as central themes. It needs to be added that following the intricacies of plot in this one requires some understanding of mining law. This includes the right to legally take possession of another claim by determining that a vein already being mined there actually surfaces (apexes) somewhere else.
Rimrock Jones was adapted to film in 1918 with matinee idol Wallace Reid in the title role.
Leave it to Dane Coolidge (1873 – 1940) to write a love story that is 90% about greed, high finance, the stock market, and mining law. Set in the deserts of southern Arizona, this novel pits its title character, a hard-drinking, gun-toting miner, against a railway tycoon in a struggle for ownership of a multi-million dollar copper mine. Between them is a deaf (we would say hearing-impaired today) freelance typist, with her own interest in both the mine and Rimrock Jones.
Above description taken from a Ron Scheer blog buddies in the saddle.
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