Featured in this lot is this 1951 edition of "Home Ranch" by Will James, Charles Scribner's Sons publishers. This book is a good story of how the west was won, how honest men worked hard, planned and made a place for themselves. With characteristic understatement and drawl, James tells the story of life on the Seven X Ranch, sixty miles long and more than forty miles wide. It's a story of hard work, tough humor, and longtime friendships; a must-have for any collector of Western literature. William Roderick James (1892-1942) was a Canadian-American artist and writer of the American West. He is known for writing "Smoky the Cowhorse", for which he won the 1927 Newbery Medal, and numerous "cowboy" stories for adults and children. His artwork, which predominantly involved cowboy and rodeo scenes, followed "in the tradition of Charles Russell", and much of it was used to illustrate his books. In 1992, he was inducted into the Hall of Great Westerners of the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum. The condition of this book is well preserved with some wear to the paper dust cover and spots of wear to the cloth wrapped cover and shows some browning to the pages consistent with age but otherwise shows a well preserved condition. The measurements of this book is 8 1/4" x 5 5/8". The collective weight of this book is 1lb 10oz.