Cassell & Company, Ltd., London, 1937 (copyright). Inscribed by the author, bottom of fff, with an inset picture of the author standing next to a horse. Wheat cloth, purple letters. Spine bumping, hd & ft, corners. Spine lettering has faded, nearly illegible. Some spine separation & boards slightly swayed; still tightly bound. 288 pages.
Vingie Eve Roe (1879-1958) was a prolific writer of fiction, with 31 published novels, chiefly westerns. She was born in Kansas and grew up in Oklahoma Territory, her father a physician. In 1907 she settled in California.
Well over 100 works of her short fiction appeared in the magazines during 1906-1941, in Munsey’s and Street & Smith’s publications, and in later years, McCall’s and other slicks. Nine of her stories and novels were adapted to film, all but one during the Silent Era. The Heart of Night Wind reached the screen in 1915; Val Of Paradise, became the movie North Of The Rio Grande, starring William Boyd as 'Hopalong' Cassidy, 'Gabby' Hayes, and Bernadine Hays..
