Small quarto. (44)pp. Dixon's drawings throughout marry the modern woodcut style to the early 20th-century artistic movement in the American West. Some images convey the sort of ecstatic naturalism found likewise in the more northern attitude of Rockwell Kent, while those depicting Indigenous Americans evince the influence of Edward Curtis's quasi-ethnographic photographs. Dixon's own artistic concerns would shift with the arrival of the Great Depression, when he focused his attention on the social realism that likewise captivated his then-wife, Dorothea Lange. As Dixon matured as a modern artist, he embedded himself in the San Francisco creative scene - the present collaboration is a fine example of his particular appeal as an illustrator. Most copies were bound in linen, but this among the few bound in orange paper over boards with black lettering. The Grabhorn bibliography calls for lettering to both covers, but here it is only at the front and at spine. Mild overall soiling, rubs to corners, rebacked in matching orange paper, but interior fine and clean. Overall a very good copy of a relatively scarce Grabhorn title. (MaGee 52)