J. FRANK DOBIE - INSCRIBED BOOK SIGNED 01/07/1949 - HFSID 221860

J. FRANK DOBIE
Inscribed and signed copy of his book Lost Mines and Buried Treasures, to which he has added an autograph quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson and eloquent wishes of his own. Signed at the Huntington Library in 1949.
Book inscribed and signed: "Ed Lauterboch - 'It's better to travel hopful/than to arrive,' Stevenson/said. May you travel far/with hope unjaded!/J. Frank Dobie/Huntington Library, San Marino, Californa/7 January 1949", 367 pages, 5¾x8¼, hard cover. Coronado's Children: Lost Mines and Buried Treasures of the Southwest, by J. Frank Dobie. N.Y: Grosset & Dunlap, 1930. First edition. Illustrated by Ben Carlton Mead. Texan author and folklorist Dobie (1888-1964) wrote stories about cowboys the figures and natural history of Texas and helped to define the popular image of his native state. His books include A Vaquero of the Brush Country (1929), about the cowboy John Young, who fought against barbed wire; Coronado's Children (1930), the collection of folklore about lost mines and treasure he has inscribed here; and The Longhorns (1941), a book about the Texas Longhorn cattle industry of the 19th century. A liberal Democrat, Dobie also wrote a Sunday newspaper column from 1939 until his death, where he criticized everything from state politics and professional teachers (he was a member of the faculty from University of Texas, Austin from 1921 to 1922 and 1925 to 1944 and taught in Europe during and after World War II) to bragging Texans, restraints on liberty and the mechanized world's erosion of the human spirit. The quotation here is from Robert Louis Stevenson, adapted from a Japanese proverb: It is better to travel hopeful than to arrive disappointed. Dust cover split at front spine crease, at front right edge crease and chipped at all edges. Signature page toned. Book binding lightly worn at corners.