2 Charles F. Lummis first editions are documented on this shelf, from A Tramp Across the Continent (1892) to The Land of Poco Tiempo (1893) across 2 different publishers. Each linked guide gives the points of issue that separate a true first printing of that Charles F. Lummis title from later printings and book-club copies — the publisher and year to expect, the number-line or edition-statement conventions, and the tells that show up in online listings.

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A Tramp Across the Continent — 1892 · Charles Scribner's SonsNew 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…. 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.
The Land of Poco Tiempo — 1893 · Charles Scribner's SonsFirst edition bears the Charles Scribner's Sons imprint dated 1893; xii, 310 pages, illustrated from the author's own photographs. Bound in brown bead-grain cloth stamped in gold, black, and yellow on the front and spine, with the back board undecorated; no later-printing statement. Foundational New Mexico travel and Americana classic. US Scribner's 1893 is the true first. Later University of New Mexico Press reprints, with new introductions, are 'first thus.'. Identified by the 1893 Scribner's imprint and original decorated bead-grain cloth. Commonly encountered copies are 20th-century reprints with different imprints and added introductions.

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