SAGEBRUSH and WAGON WHEELS


Written by Edna S. Dustin and illustrated by V. Douglas Snow. Published by Bookcraft, Salt Lake City. Copyright 1946; There is no statement of printing, but that was usual practice with this publisher and it is doubtful that there was more than one printing.

The book is inscribed to someone Edna Dustin didn’t feel the need to use her last name with. It is signed by Edna Dustin on the front endpaper using her first name only—the signature matches her handwriting on other books I have seen.

This book features artwork by noted Utah artist V. Douglas Snow. They are very dramatic woodcuts by a very young Snow. He was only 19 years old when this book was published.

The Salt Lake Tribune had this to say about Edna S. Dustin in 1946

“Native born, and known by hundreds for her professional work as a registered nurse, the author’s literary talent has added to her fame. Edna Dustin’s poems appeal because of their understanding sympathy and her knowledge of the heights and depths of human living.”

information from the website of the University of Utah Marriot Library, Utah Artists Project:

V. Douglas Snow was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, in 1927. Snow was a strong painter that painted large impressionist and abstract murals that are exhibited in several public buildings across Utah. He died in a car accident October 20, 2009 at the age of 82.

Snow studied at the University of Utah from 1943-1945, majoring in theater. He later attended New York's American Art School, Columbia University, and the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan. At Cranbrook, Snow rapidly finished a Bachelor of Fine Arts and a Master of Fine Arts in 1949 and 1950.

Snow has works in many public and private collections throughout the United States including New York's Museum of Modern Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Utah Museum of Fine Arts, the Springville Museum of Art, and the Museum of Art at Brigham Young University, and Iron Blossom Lodge, Snowbird.

He is best known in Utah for his murals at the Leonardo Museum, at the University of Utah graduate school of Social Work building, at the Pioneer Theatre, at the Salt Lake International Airport, and behind the Utah Supreme Court bench at the Matheson Courthouse.

In 1976, Snow became the Director of Art at the University of Utah/Snowbird Summer Arts Institute.

DESCRIPTION:

80 pages

9 x 6 1/8 inches

first edition, signed hardcover with dustjacket

CONDITION:

This hard-cover book is in very good+ condition with a good+ dustjacket. The red-sand colored cloth hardcover is clean and shows only slight wear at the corners and spine ends. There is a gift inscription on the front endpaper. The interior is excellent with no names (other than the author’s inscription), marks, underlining, tears or odor. The paper is somewhat toned with age. The hinges and binding are excellent with no loose or missing pages.

The dustjacket is complete with price intact on the front flap, but has a few small chips in the top edge. It is rubbed and a bit worn at the edges and corners. There are several small tears along the edges which have been stabilized on the back with acid-free archival tissue tape. This dustjacket will come protected in a new Brodart mylar dustjacket protector.

From the dust jacket description:

Here for the first time in book form is a collection of verse by Edna S. Dustin. Known wherever poetry is read and enjoyed, the author has made a definite contribution to the folklore of the West with the stirring poetry which appears within this volume. Her pioneer titles are unparalleled for their portrayal of the epical conquest of her native state, Utah, by a generation which she has chosen to venerate with her pen.

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