Title: My Reminiscences as a Cowboy
Author: Frank Harris
Cover artist: Rockwell Kent
Interior illustrations: William Gropper
Yours for: $12
Best things about this wrap-around cover:
- Elegant. I like how the rider seems to be asleep while the horse is mid-violent-leap.
- Are those wool chaps? They're ... puffy.
- Charles Boni's Paper Books were an early experiment in softcover books. This book was published nearly a decade before the first mass-market paperbacks (Pocketbooks) began appearing. For more on Paper Books, see this nice blog entry.
Here are a couple of Gropper's interior illustrations:
- Fantastic woodcut look to these. Loving the bandolier and crooked saloon doors in this one. Oh, and the epic 'stache.
- That's a hell of a left. I love the victim's agony-hand.
Page 123~
Locker sent him after the younger boy to round up as many Texans as possible but before they could be collected, a bunch of Greasers, twenty or so, in number, rode up and demanded the return of the cattle.Well, at least "Greasers" was capitalized. That's *kind* of respectful. P.S. commas in this passage appear exactly as they do in the book, improbable as that may seem.
~RP
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5 comments:
The link you suggest seems to be broken
Yes, the chaps probably are wooly. There were chaps made of unshort sheepskin.
Yeah, a lot of the cowboys in the northern plains wore "woolies" - chaps made of leather with the hair still on. Goat, sheep, buffalo, bear, whatever. It kept their legs warm and dry in wet/cold/snowy weather. Then that style got popular with cowboy performers, like in the Wild West shows, because they looked good to a crowd.
Link works fine for me. Not sure what problem is.
RP
I think both horse and man on the cover look like they are being drawn upward by a tractor beam, in some state of extreme sedation. They are absolutely LIMP.
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