Description
For sale: a Rare and Exceptional first hardcover edition, first printing of Close Range: Wyoming Stories by Annie Proulx in a new archival wrap. First Edition unstated, 1999 Scribner. First Printing with a complete number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2. Illustrated with watercolors by William Matthews.
The book is in Fine condition with clean, bright boards, strong title ink on the convex spine, clean page blocks, tight binding, no spine tilt, rolled spine ends, mild edge wear, and strong corners. The interior of the book is in Fine condition with no marks or inscriptions. The end papers and the interior pages are clean and bright.
The dust jacket is in Near Fine condition with mild surface and edge wear and the price on the front flap. Looks great in a new Brodart archival wrap.
Annie Proulx’s masterful language and fierce love of Wyoming are evident in this collection of stories about loneliness, quick violence, and wrong kinds of love. In “The Mud Below,” a rodeo rider’s obsession marks the deepening fissures between his family life and self-imposed isolation. In “The Half-Skinned Steer,” an elderly fool drives west to the ranch he grew up on for his brother’s funeral, and dies a mile from home. In the iconic story “Brokeback Mountain,” the difficult affair between two cowboys survives everything but the world’s intolerance.
Ships promptly in a secure mailer with the book wrapped in both craft paper and bubble wrap.
