1944 VARDIS FISHER ~ SIGNED The Golden Rooms LTD 1/125
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The Golden Rooms Fisher, Vardis Caldwell, Idaho The Caxton Printers, Ltd. 1944 Limited Edition The De Luxe Edition First Edition . 1 of 125 signed and numbered. Red leather gilt stamped and gilt top edge excellent condition binding tight. "Vardis Alvero Fisher (March 31, 1895 – July 9, 1968) was a well-respected writer best known for historical novels of the old West and the monumental 12-volume Testament of Man series of novels, depicting the history of humans from cave to civilization ...Vardis Fisher's novel, Mountain Man (1965), was the basis for Sydney Pollack's film, Jeremiah Johnson , nominated for a Golden Palm award at the 1972 Cannes Film Festival . The Mothers: An American Saga of Courage told the story of the Donner Party tragedy. His historical novel, Children of God , tracing the history of the Mormons , won the 1939 Harper Prize in Fiction. Tale of Valor is a novel recounting the Lewis and Clark Expedition . God or Caesar? is his non-fiction book on how to write...One of his hobbies was house construction, so much so he built his own home in the Thousand Springs area near Hagerman , Idaho. Vardis did the wiring, masonry, carpentry and plumbing himself. His father Joe, a hunter, had a working relationship with the Blackfeet Indians of the area.Vardis Fisher had one child with his wife, Leona McMurtrey, who was born
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