Author: EDWARD MARSTON.
Title: Frank’s Ranche or My Holiday in the Rockies. Being a Contribution to the Inquiry Into What We Are To Do With Our Boys. {A Book with a Fine Pedigree}.
Description: London. Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington. 1886. First Edition. Crown Buildings, 188, Fleet Street. Small octavo (6 x 4). xvi, [1], 2-214 pp. Illustrated frontispiece showing Frank’s Ranche. Text drawings throughout. There’s a double page map showing the route Mr. Marston traveled - New York to Montana and Wyoming. This is the diary of a British bloke as he heads to the Rockies; Edward Marston was a writer of angling books and in this one he’s searching for the Wild American West - he finds it (through a tourist’s eyes) and also manages to fish a little along the way. The book is bound in the original brown cloth with gilt titles on the spine and front cover. Top edge gilt. And now to the provenance. The book has three ownership bookplates - two of which are of John Gerard Heckscher, one of America’s greatest angling book collectors. The third bookplate is of Wilbur G. Downs; a world-famous naturalist an medical researcher. And to the condition, which is not quite up to the pedigree. The book has rubbing to the front cover and light edge wear. Front hinge starting. Okay, near very good.

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