Cowboy Kate & Other Stories.
by HASKINS, Sam
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London.: The Bodley Head., 1965.. Original publisher's grey cloth with black title to upper board and spine, original monochrome dust-jacket, and cardboard slipcase. Very minor tear to head of dust-jacket and very slight creasing where book has slid into slipcase. Overall a fine copy.. Folio.(356 x 275 mm).. Illustrated throughout in monochrome, typography and design by Sam Haskins and Julius Sher. First edition of Haskins' second book; his first was Five Girls published in 1962.A spectacular copy of a beautifully printed (in gravure) Sam Haskins title. This copy with the hardly-ever-seen and hence mythical original cardboard slipcase. The German edition published the same year was issued in a delightful pictorial slipcase. Copies of the original English edition in its somewhat plain slipcase are exceedingly rare.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Sims Reed Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 36616
- Title
- Cowboy Kate & Other Stories.
- Author
- HASKINS, Sam
- Format/Binding
- Original publisher's grey cloth with black title to upper board and spine, original monochrome dust-jacket, and cardboard slipca
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Bodley Head.
- Place of Publication
- London.
- Date Published
- 1965.
- Size
- Folio.(356 x 275 mm).
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About the Seller
Sims Reed Rare Books
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London
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