MUMEY, Nolie

The mountains in reverie

Denver: Privately printed, 1962. 8vo. [xxix] pp., FIRST EDITION. including printer’s statement and half-title. Leaf-patterned cloth, paper label to top cover with confetti-patterned end-papers; uncut. Inscribed by the author. Item #11699

First edition of this long poem about the Rocky Mountains, a limited printing, number 31 of 50 copies. Mumey (1891-1984), a physician as well as a Colorado historian, wrote numerous historical and biographical works, including a biography of S. Weir Mitchell.

Price: $65.00