Showing posts with label Troop. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Troop. Show all posts

Sunday, May 11, 2014

Paperback 773: The Sea of Grass / Conrad Richter (Pocket Book 413)

Paperback 773: Pocket Book 413 (4th ptg, 1948)

Title: The Sea of Grass
Author: Conrad Richter
Cover artist: "Troop" (?)

Yours for: $10

PB413

Best things about this cover:

  • Pretty dour, tepid stuff. Two screen legends just looking at each other against a (literal?) sea of grass.
  • I prefer a photo cover, or something more dynamic, for my movie tie-ins.
  • The book's in startlingly good condition. That's about the only good thing I can say about it.


PB413bc

Best things about this back cover:

  • It's not really fair if you fight only the *old* Indians.
  • I see your problem, buddy. You got one of them there imported wives. You really gotta buy domestic.
  • The "lowest possible price" is zero, Pocket Books, you liars.


Page 23~ (book's only 118 pp. long)
[A] spray of pink loco weed had been pinned freshly across her basque and she still moved with undiminished sparkle and aliveness.
I liked "loco weed" better before I looked it up and realized that it does not, in fact, make you "loco."

~RP

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