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Dial Press, 1970. First edition, first printing, 432 pp., Hardcover, previous owner's name to front free endpaper else very good in a very good dust jacket. - If you are reading this, this item is actually (physically) in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.

A reprint of "Jim Kane" to take advantage of the movie production entitled "Pocket Money", starring Paul Newman & Lee Marvin. A photograph, or possibly a still from the movie of these two fine actors, on the front cover. An uncommon paperback with this photo and the movie title. A light crease in the spine; some very minor edgewear; about 20 pages near the back with a minor corner crease. Difficult to find copies for sale.

New York: The Dial Press, 1970. First Edition. Octavo. First printing. 432(1) pages. Inscribed: "for Pete Preston, whose reinmaster touch brings sculpture to life." JPS Brown. Pete Preston had years of experience as a cowboy, ranch foreman and herdsman on ranches in Arizona, Texas, Utah and Colorado and uses them in his paintings and sculpture. Additionally signed as "Joe", unusually personal by J.P.S. Brown. Brown's western fiction speaks of the last days of the wild west and of the encroachment of developers in the Phoenix area. The most authentic picture of the cowboys and ranchers who dealt in the cattle trade in the post-World War II era. Chapters deal with key Spanish words central to the world of buying and selling cattle as well as the life of the cowboy with drinking, women, and facing the dudes from back east who thinks his new cowboy hat and garb makes him anything more than a play actor. Forget the third rate movie version called Pocket Money, read this classic on the life of the working… Read More

Dial Press, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. First printing stated. Spine ends of the binding pushed but not rubbed, light scuff on the rear board. Near Fine in a Fine dustjacket.