Watch Your Thirst: A Dry Opera in Three Acts (signed)

Watch Your Thirst: A Dry Opera in Three Acts. 175 pp. Blue cloth with gold imprint. Original brown dust jacket with slight fading on spine. Fine Condition. An unusual opera written by Wister. It is limited to a printing of 1000 and it is signed by Wister. A rare book. Macmillan Co., 1923. First Edition. Signed, 912/1000. $475.

Owen Wister first visited Jackson Hole in the late 1880s for his health. His travel journals to and from the East were the basis for his novel The Virginian, the classic first published Western. Most of this work was written at his residence in Jackson Hole.