Story of Ajax - Life in the Big Hole Basin by Alva J. Noyes. Inscribed First piublication.

The Story of Ajax - Life in the Big Hole Basin by Alva J. Noyes. State Publishing Company. 1914. Helena, Montana. Inscribed, "Ike- this pen is like/ its owner - "Pinney' it wont/ go unless driven./ Truly yours/ Al Noyes/ Ajax". 158 pages. 13 full page black and white photographs. Errata listed below list of photographs. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Bright gilt lettering on front cover - slightly faded on spine, but still quite legible. Cover edge wear. Remnants of previous owner book plate(?) and full-page label inside front cover. Some letters in the word 'forward' on the forward page have been colored in using pencil. I did find a few page corner folds, but they are not obvious. No other previous owner markings. No tears to pages. Binding is tight with no looseness to pages. Not ex-library, not remaindered and not a facsimile reprint. For sale by Jon Wobber, bookseller since 1978. FD17a"This little story gives some of the history of the beautiful Big Hole Basin and will, no doubt,