Hardcover
1966 · Garden City, NY
by McCracken, Harold
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1966. 292/500 limited copies bound in leather and signed by McCracken. Hardcover. VG+/Good+ (paper layer missing from very top, closed edge of slipcase with a splitting board in same spot).. Full embossed brown leather, with gilt titling and decoration, in tan board slipcase with mounted leather, gilt-embossed label on slipcase. All edges are gilt. Extra color plate mounted between half title and title page. 284 pp. with color frontis and 31 additional color and more than 365 bw plates. Heavy (7 pounds / 3.18 kilos) and will require additional postage. Contents in 16 sections/chapters: Frederic Remington - Pictorial Historian; Explorers of the West; The Trail Finders; Pioneers on the Plains; The Red Man's World; When the Land was Still Theirs; Conquest for Empire; Army of the West; Struggle for the Northern Plains; Subjugation and Transition; Buffalo to Cattle; The Cowboy in His Day; The Last Cavalier; The Last of the Indian Wars; Broncos in Bronze; and the Index of Pictures. Each section with enlightening narrative text. A beautiful book and excellent reference. Includes a bw photo of Remington.
(Inventory #: 153894)