Good Medicine: The Illustrated Letters of Charles M. Russell
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1930. 'First Edition, after the printing of 134 De Luxe copies (stated). Tall quarto; 162pp. Tissue-protected color frontispiece and illustrations (mostly color). With an introduction by Will Rogers and a nine-page biographical note by Nancy Russell. Tan linen with brown and gold lettering to front cover and spine; TEG; in uncommon original color illustrated dustjacket. A fine copy in good dustjacket (paper loss at spine ends; short closed tears, chips and wear to extremities; 2"split to upper front flap; light foxing & age toning). Item #21218
Contains 145 letters from Charles M. Russell (one of which is to Bill Hart), with 105 individual line engravings and seventy-eight color plates, mostly from watercolors. William S. Hart, silent film actor, screenwriter, director and producer is remembered as the foremost western star of the silent era. Hart was one of Russell's closest frinds. (Herd 1968; Howes R-527; Yost 72A).
Price: $350.00