The Virginian by Wister Owen, First Edition (20 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Arthur I Keller (illustrator). 1st Edition. Shelf wear all around the cloth boards with some unraveling. Early romantic western: Popular at the time: "Set up and electrotyped April, 1902. Reprinted June, twice, July, four times, August, three times, September. three times, November, twice, December, 1902." later printing of 1st edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket As Issued. Arthur Keller (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition, 15th printing.Tan boards in very good shape. Corners mildly bumped and minor wear to the top and bottom of the spine. Titling in red. A sisxshooter and a rope on the front and a spur on the spine . 504 pages with ads at the rear.

Hardcover; Twelfth Printing. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Clean pages and illustrations. Average cover wear. Sound. No marks or writing. No page tears. ; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" ; 504 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Original tan cloth with cover stamping in red and black. 8vo. 504pp plus 6pp ads. First edition with date on title page and "Set up and electrotyped April, 1902" on copyright page. Illustrated with 8 black & white plates by Arthur I. Keller. A very good copy with the front cover very bright and unworn. The spine has some rubbing and wear to the tips. The text is good with some light soiling and wear. There is some edge-chipping to the dedication, intro and contents pages. A few of the plates and pages have some light spotting in the margin. There is an ink name on the front inside cover at the top. The front of the textblock is starting to split in the gutter but is still secure.

Hardcover. Condition: Collectible: Good. First Edition. FIRST EDITION. NY: The Macmillan Company, 1902. Original tan cloth ettered in red, gilt and black. Good+ with top edge of front board a bit chewed along edge but internally in pretty nice shape. A bit of staining to cloth. The first printing of the very first Western novel.

Hardcover. First Edition; Fifth Printing. Good in boards.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 1st Ed., xiii+504 pp., frontis, plates, signature laid in, cloth, vg+, in slipcase Graff #4725 6-Score #116 Merrill Aristocrat Dobie-Dykes # 44. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Very Good in boards. Owner name on FEP. Rear hinge cracked.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Edition, very good condition with minor wear at bottom of spine. No dust jacket, but has a slip case.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. A touch of wear to the bottom edge of spine and seam - see image. Pencilled name on front free endpaper that can be easily erased - left to give provenance if significant to others. ; Book is in excellent condition. First Printing with the words "set up and electrotyped April, 1902" printed on the copyright page. Scarce copy in this true First Edition, in this condition, and at this price. Iconic book that is believed to tell the story of the west that has been adopted by subsequent books and movies, or as stated by John D. Nesbitt, "Owen Wister, the writer credited with creating the classic Western hero and the popular western novel. "; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 504 pages.

Hardcover. First edition. First edition. xiv, 504, [6] pp. Bound in publisher's sandy yellow cloth with red, black, and gilt stamping. Very Good+ with a little foxing to cloth at back board, bumped corners, small repaired tear to head cloth, portrait of the author pasted onto front free endpaper, front and rear hinges show evidence of repair. A novel that has been called the first Western, with the first shootout ending in fiction.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. First Edition. Set in Wyoming Territory during the 1880s, this novel describes the life of a cowboy on a cattle ranch and is considered the first true fictional western ever written, aside from short stories and pulp dime novels. Octavo: [xiv], 504, [6] p. with 8 illustrations by Arthur I. Keller. Original tan cloth binding, with decorative red, black, and gilt stamping. The rear hinge is just starting, with some general dust staining to the top edge. Minor wear to the corners and tips, with a bit of toning and light rubbing along the spine; otherwise about very good. Housed in a custom two-part cloth slipcase.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Arthur I. Keller (illustrator). 1st Edition. First Printing, with the phrase "set up and electrotyped April, 1902" printed on the copyright page. 8vo, xiii, 504, (6, ads) pp. With 8 black and white illustrations by Arthur I. Keller. Original tan cloth with quite bright red and gilt titles and with design of holstered pistol intertwined with a lariat. Tiny chip to head of spine. 1/2" closed tear to ffep. 3 closed tears to half title page. No Jacket. In archival cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. The genesis of an American mythos *** First edition, first printing. Illustrated plates by Arthur I. Keller. Fine, original tan cloth book with the rare jacket in tremendously satisfying shape - chipped at spine panel ends and corners, a few closed tears else a bright, Near Fine example that retains its visual dynamism. The few Virginian jackets that occasionally surface typically look ravaged. Contemporary female owner signature on front endpaper dated June 1902, Boston. An excellent copy housed in a custom case. *** In 1885, the Harvard educated Wister sought recuperation at a Wyoming ranch after suffering a nervous breakdown. He d begin writing various pieces about the West, culminating in this 1902 magnum opus that he dedicated to his friend, President Theodore Roosevelt. It effectively created the Western genre we know today a mysterious, chivalrous cowboy rides into the West, grapples with moral dilemmas, and encounters a schoolteacher love interest. It also contains classic genre features like horse-thievery, card playing, cattle driving, and a climactic gunfight that s the first showdown in fiction. Truly a landmark work that was the best-selling book in the country for two straight years, garnering Wister fame and fortune and etching a key mythos into the psyche of the nation. ***Please email us for better pricing.

Condition: Very good plus. First edition of the work that introduced a wider audience to the archetype of the cowboy, laying the groundwork for popular conceptions (and misconceptions) of the American West. Encouraged to write about his Western experiences by his classmate Teddy Roosevelt, Owen Wister's THE VIRGINIAN was "an immediate success" upon its publication (Lambert). Wister, a Harvard alum from an upper-middle-class Philadelphia family, wrote about the American frontier not as dime-novel sensationalism, but as a place that could symbolically heal cultural rifts. His cowboy, the nameless VIRGINIAN, was "a cultural symbol that involved both our notions about a beneficent wilderness and our commitment to the values of civilization," a timeless figure that crossed the boundaries between "wild-man" and "gentle-man" (Lambert). THE VIRGINIAN and his exploits captured the hearts and minds of Americans invested in forging unity from the tensions unresolved by the Civil War. Wister's Southern hero and his East Coast intellectual love interest, Molly, are emblematic of "a larger national project of reunification and reconciliation" in a time when "the North and South fed imitatively on each other's racist inclinations" (Kuenz). Despite the large percentage of Black cowboys who worked on the Western frontier, Wister's Wyoming is overwhelmingly white, a feature that would continue to influence this misconception and become a fixture of the Western genre. THE VIRGINIAN has been adapted for the stage and screen several times, including as a 1914 silent film directed by Cecil B. DeMille and as a long-running NBC TV series. An important cultural touchstone. 7.5'' x 5''. Original tan cloth binding with red, black, and gilt titles and details. Black-and-white frontispiece with seven black-and-white plates. xiii, 504 pages followed by 3 leaves of ads. A bit of edgewear to binding, spine ends bumped with tiny split to top; occasional small spots of soil to leaves. Shows well.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 504 pages. First edition, first printing. The "first" Western and still considered the classic. Illustrated by Arthur I. Keller. Laid in is a note signed and dated in 1925 by Wister. Near fine book in a very good first state dust jacket with no designs or type on the back cover or flaps. Their are six pages of ads at the end of the book. Encased in a custom clam shell box. A rare and unique copy! Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Rebound in three quarter dark blue morocco with marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, with the original cloth front panel and spine bound in the rear. Ink owner name on the verso of the added marbled endpaper, light rubbing, near fine. Signed under the half title "by Owen Wister Oct 3. 1917." The seminal Western, generally considered the first cowboy novel and the book that defined the genre. Filmed numerous times. Although copies are occasionally offered with Wister letters, actual signed copies of the book are scarce.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition, First Printing with the words "set up and electrotyped April, 1902" printed on the copyright page. The book is bound in the original publisher's tan cloth. The binding is tight, with NO cocking or leaning with minor wear to the edges. The pages are clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. A wonderful copy in collector's condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition, First Printing. The book is in nice shape. The binding is tight with light wear to the spine and edges. The pages are clean with minor wear. There is NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. A lovely copy of this TRUE FIRST EDITION with the words "set up and electrotyped April, 1902" printed on the copyright page.

First Edition. Octavo. First printing in April. 504 pp., (6) pp. publisher's ads, illustrated by Arthur I. Keller, and dedicated to his very close friend Theodore Roosevelt. The story of a young cowboy known only as the Virginian, who travels through the Wyoming Territory of the 1870s. He begins his life as a cattle ranch hand who becomes a distinguished tough foreman. He details his life as a cowboy in the rustic land of Montana. Bound in tan cloth lettered and ruled in black and red, centrally decorated in black and red with a lariat and gun in a holster, spine lettered and decorated in red and black outlined in gilt, a very good copy with a light wear along the upper joint, some soiling to covers, corners somewhat worn with two corners bumped,and slight crease to upper corners of title page and frontispiece, some scattered foxing. From the library of Fletcher Ferris Ryer (1861-1911), a California lawyer.