Law Rides the Range: Includes 2 page signed author inscription

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Fair. 12mo. [4], 265 pages, [1]. Hardcover with illustrated dust jacket. Jacket is chipped in several spots and is in fair condition only. Light browning to the end papers and hinges. A personal inscription of 2 pages is written by the author to a friend is located on the right front flyleaf and on the verso of the right front flyleaf. Inscription reads - "Rancho Santa Fe, Calif. May 12, '52 To Alice Q. Grieg?: Friend Alice! Many thanks for your very fine letter. It is things like that that make story writing worth while. I will try to dig up the story you want. But it will have to be in about 6 months as it is stored away in the files with a lot of other stuff. We are leaving Calif. for 6 months to go to Prescott, Arizona where we used to have a cattle outfit. It is pine tree country Your description of the country around Chimney Rock sounds beautiful. Would like to see it. You would like Arizona the desert with the cactus in bloom in the spring. Perhaps you may get out there or to my old range in the Little Rockies in Montana. Am sending a couple of pocket books and a small basket? -Over- [page 2 of inscription] I broke the little buckskin mare called Peanuts. She is a calf-roping horse. ??? buckskin and a carrot eaten bet. When I can find them I will send you snapshots of the other chestnut mare Calamity Jane and her filly Jodie. All of them quarter horses. Right now am in the midst of packing leave to-morrow. In haste, now Mighty Sincerely Walt. Address Rancho Santa Fe, Calif. P.S. Its near San Diego 7 miles from the beach. Thanks again Alice for the swell note!