# Is "A Tramp Across the Continent" by Charles F. Lummis a First Edition?

> **Quick answer.** A first edition of A Tramp Across the Continent by Charles F. Lummis (Charles Scribner's Sons, 1892) is identified by: New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1892, octavo, collating [i]-xiii plus 270 pages and an index, bound in pictorial cloth. The true first edition is the Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, printing of 1892; a London edition from Sampson Low, Marston & Co.

**Checklist — a true first has these:**
- New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1892, octavo, collating [i]-xiii plus 270 pages and an index, bound in pictorial cloth
- The book recounts, from newspaper letters Lummis wrote along the way, his 1884-85 walk from Cincinnati, Ohio, to Los Angeles, California -- a trek that carried him across New Mexico and Arizona and set off the lifelong fascination with Southwestern history, archaeology, and Hispano and Pueblo culture that made Lummis a defining figure of Southwestern letters
- He revised the newspaper dispatches into their final book form between 1888 and 1892 while recuperating from a paralytic stroke at Isleta Pueblo in the New Mexico Territory
- Publisher imprint reads Charles Scribner's Sons
- Not a book-club edition (see below)

| | |
|---|---|
| Author | Charles F. Lummis |
| Publisher | Charles Scribner's Sons |
| Year | 1892 |
| True first | — |
| Format | Hardcover (trade) |
| Key point | New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1892, octavo, collating [i]-xiii plus 270 pages and an index, bound in pictorial cloth |
| Book-club edition exists? | — |

## Points of issue
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1892, octavo, collating [i]-xiii plus 270 pages and an index, bound in pictorial cloth. The book recounts, from newspaper letters Lummis wrote along the way, his 1884-85 walk from Cincinnati, Ohio, to Los Angeles, California -- a trek that carried him across New Mexico and Arizona and set off the lifelong fascination with Southwestern history, archaeology, and Hispano and Pueblo culture that made Lummis a defining figure of Southwestern letters. He revised the newspaper dispatches into their final book form between 1888 and 1892 while recuperating from a paralytic stroke at Isleta Pueblo in the New Mexico Territory.

## Is this the true first?
The true first edition is the Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, printing of 1892; a London edition from Sampson Low, Marston & Co. followed in 1893 and is not the first.

## Source
New Mexico Literacy Project — Is *A Tramp Across the Continent* by Charles F. Lummis a first edition? https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/a-tramp-across-the-continent
CC BY 4.0. Part of the Canonical First-Edition Points of Issue dataset (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/api/first-edition-titles.json). Last reviewed 2026-07-04.