The Desire of the Moth
New York: Henry Holt, 1916. 1st. Original cloth. Firt Edition, published April, 1916. 12mo. 149, [1], [6 pp publisher's advertisements] pp. 2 illustrated plates by H. T. Dunn. Brick red cloth stamped in black. Light wear to extremities; short closed tears to a few pages at the upper page edges where they meet the spine; a near fine copy. Item #17656
The third novel by the master storyteller of the American West. The further adventures of John Wesley Pringle, who proves dues ex machine gun to the heroine and visits a "Movie Palace" near the Mexican Border. "Drawing as it does on his own experience, Rhodes’ fiction opens a window into a world that one likes to think of as authentically western." - Buddies in the Saddle blog.
Price: $150.00