The Outfit: A Cowboy's Primer
New York: The Dial Press, 1971. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 349pp. Octavo [23 cm]. Brown textured paper over boards with gilt title stamped on spine. With a title page illustration of a desert landscape. The top third of the front board is split along the joint. In a worn dust jacket, with closed tears and small losses to the edges, and some type of plastic residue to the surface. Good / Good. Item #71186
The author's second novel.
A stated first printing copy. Written by "working cowboy" J.P.S. Brown, "The Outfit" pulls from his personal experience on a cattle ranch and exhibits his literary prowess in creating a modern Western novel which is filled with the suspense of an impending, dark winter.
Humorously inscribed by the author on the tipped-in front flyleaf: "or____ / Who upon examin- / ation of this old / carcass did not find / it derelict. / Joe / J. P. S. Brown."
Price: $250.00