first edition Full-Leather
1985 · New York
by Smith, Rex Alan
New York: Abbeville Press, 1985. SPECIAL DELUXE EDITION. Full-Leather. Fine. Octavo. SPECIAL DELUXE EDITION, 415 pages, bound in full beige BUFFALO HIDE, and SIGNED on an official bookplate on the front pastedown AND a slice of Mt. Rushmore granite mounted within a recessed compartment built into the front pastedown; ADDITIONALLY INSCRIBED by the author on the front free endpaper, signed and dated, A lovely and interesting book illustrated with many fascinating photographs of the miners who drilled and carved the hard granite. A fine copy without glassine jacket.
(Inventory #: 2270)