Beth Norvell: A Romance of the West (Colorado mining town) 1907 Randall Parrish's son's copy

Title: Beth Norvell: A Romance of the West

Author: Randall Parrish
Illustrator: N.C. Wyeth

Description: Author's son's copy: signature of Philip H. Parrish. First Edition, first printing (September 21, 1907). Tan buckram cloth boards with decorative pictorial on front cover. Spine darkened. First page of chapter one has a significant but mended closed tear; the preceding ''half-title'' page is missing its top part. Owner's name is rubber stamped in a few places. Soiling on a couple pages, else generally clean. Color frontispiece by N. C. Wyeth. pp. vi, 341, plus [10] ads.

Signature of the author's son, Philip Hammon Parrish (1896-1956), on ffep. Philip was also an author and published two books: Before the Covered Wagon (1931, Metropolitan Press) and Historic Oregon (1937, Macmillan).

The heroine of this western romance is Beth Norvell, an actress in a traveling company who enters a Colorado mining camp.

Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Good–
Jacket Condition: None

Publisher: A.C. McClurg & Co.
Place: Chicago
Year: 1907

Keywords: novel, fiction, Colorado, mining camps, romance, western,