SCHAEFER, Jack. Shane. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1949. 8vo, [viii] 214pp. Gray boards stamped in brown. Spine ends lightly rubbed, slight lean to spine, previous owner’s bookplate on front fixed endpaper, else a clean, bright copy in original color pictorial dust jacket (a few tiny scratches, rear panel a bit soiled). Signed on the endpaper by the author, Newbery Medalist Jack Schaefer!

 

First edition. 1950 Newbery Medal Winner! A stranger rode out of the heart of the great glowing West, into the small Wyoming valley in the summer of 1889. It was Shane, who appeared on the horizon and became a friend and guardian to the Starrett family at a time when homesteaders and cattle rangers battled for territory and survival. Jack Schaefer’s classic novel illuminates the spirit of the West through the eyes of a young boy and a hero who changes the lives of everyone around him. A classic of Western American storytelling, a Newbery Medal-winning titles, and t he basis for the classic 1953 film starring Alan Ladd.