CHAS E. MORRIS: Montana's Historic Photographer
Great Falls and El Paso: Dallywelter Press and Sun Dance Press, 1997. First Edition. Soft cover. Collectible Near Fine. Item #xxx005
1st printing. Small (5 1/2" x 6 1/2") pictorial wrappers. 24pp. Illus. This chapbook "is a prelude to a large format coffeetable book, True, Free Spirit," which was soon to be published. "The term 'Chapbook' is an old English term meaning a small book or pamphlet containing poems, ballads, or stories ... coined because they were originally sold by chapmen, the peddlers of the day." Small (dime-sized) stain upper front cover. From Montana's Blaine County newspaper: "Charles E. Morris was a photographer in the late 1800's-early 1900's. For a time he had a studio on Indiana Street in Chinook. He was a cowboy turned self-taught photographer who set about to capture life on the open range. He recognized he was seeing the end of an era and photographed much of the range area, and its people, in our part of the country." Else fine. Very scarce.
Price: $45.00