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No Life for A Lady w/ Borein sketch, Biz Card

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a) 1st Edition book, No Life For a Lady by Agnes Morley Cleveland, with original pen and ink illustration by Edward Borein, also signed and inscribed to Col Slocum, 1941. Also inscribed by the author to artist and friend M S Slocum. Book plate Ex libris Myles Standish Slocum., Good++ condition, with good dust jacket, perimeter wear and chips to dust jacket extremities. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 356 pages. Considered one of the best books written about ranching. The author ran a ranch in the wildest part of New Mexico for more than fifty years, and became a cow puncher, grizzly bear hunter, dealt with cattle rustlers, and played poker. She was a breed apart. With illustrations by Edward Borein, Adams Herd #483, Adams Six Guns #436, Reese Six Score #20, Dykes Kid #298, Campbell 101, Dobie/Dykes 44&44 #2, Dobie p. 99, Campbell p. 92. Scarce in the first edition. A western classic!, b) Rare framed & matted Edward Borein Business Card with his El Paseo, Santa Barbara (1922-1945) address. Borein etched horse & riders in procession, PROVENANCE: John T Reynolds (Santa Barbara) Collection, Includes 1982 letter from Kross Engraving in Pasadena to Harold Davidson stating that there is "no doubt that the seven figures on the card were etched by the artist".

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