The Trail of the Lonesome Pine by FOX, John, Jr - 1909

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1909. Hardcover. Illustrations by F.C. Yohn. Small 8vo. Red cloth with gilt lettering and decoration. 422pp. Tissue-guarded frontispiece, 7 full-page called-for plates. Very good. Faint edgewear. A tight and quite nice early printing of this romantic Western, a huge bestseller in 1908 and 1909 and subject of stage and films. This copy bears a choice autograph addition related to the popular 1936 film versionl: Tipped to front flyleaf is a fine, heavy stock 5" X 3" card signed boldly at center by Fred MacMurray (who plays lead character Jack Hale) in his favored teal blue fineline, and he dates it "1980" at upper right. Tipped opposite on front pastedown is MacMurray's original transmittal envelope (cancelled in Los Angeles on 14 July 1980) with his inkstamped name/address at upper left. MacMurray (1907-91) was a solid leading man of countless Westerns and dramas of the 1930s and '40s, best known for later comedies such as "The Shaggy Dog" and "The Absent Minded Professor" and the television series "My Three Sons." BAL 6256.