PONY TRACKS
(New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1895).
FIRST EDITION AND A HANDSOME COPY OF THIS FAMOUS WORK. This was the author's first book. The famous American painter, illustrator, sculptor, and writer specialized in depicting the American West, specifically concentrating on cowboys, American Indians, and the U. S. Cavalry.
Remington was the most successful Western illustrator in the "Golden Age" of illustration at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, so much so that the other Western artists such as Charles Russell and Charles Schreyvogel were known during Remington's life as members of the "School of Remington" Item #31931
First Edition, First Issue with the title-page dated. With 70 black & white illustrations by the author. 8vo, very handsomely bound in the publisher s original cloth binding featuring Remington s artistic decorations and calligraphic style lettering to the upper cover in gilt and colours of soldiers and Native American Indians atop horses and with pictorial decorations in colours and lettering in gilt to the spine panel. [x], 269, [1], ads pp. A handsome copy, the covers bright and clean and with colours and gilt vibrant, the spine panel only slightly mellowed or dulled, the extremities in very good order, very little rubbing or evidence of use, the text-block very clean and in excellent condition, the hinges strong, the book tight and very well preserved, some old offsetting to the pastedown and free-fly.