Traildust : Cowboys, Cattle and Country : The Art of James Reynolds

Shelton, Connecticut: The Greenwich Workshop Press, 1997. A beautiful, unread copy of the first printing. Fine condition in a bright, shiny, Fine dust jacket. NO chips. NO tears. NO creases. NOT price clipped ($39.95). Clean, square, and tight. Sharp corners. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a remainder. Fresh and crisp -- obviously never read. Oversize hardcover. 10.25" wide by 10.25" tall. Beautifully illustrated by James Reynolds with 85 full-color paintings -- mostly full page and magnificent double-page spreads. Introduction by Elmer Kelton. Text by Don Hedgpeth. Jacket praise from Larry McMurtry. Contains an Introduction and six chapters: 1) Six-Gun Myths and Bowlegged Reality; 2) The Range Country: Land Made for Legend; 3) Buffalo Legacy: Hide, Horn and Hoof; 4) Cowboys: The Last Sagebrush Cavaliers; 5) Roundup: Traildust and Proud Memories; 6) James Reynolds: Cowboy at Heart. Index: List of Paintings. Bound in the original beige cloth, lettered/stamped in dark red with the image of a pair of cowboys on horseback on the front cover. "First Printing 1997" is so stated, with complete number row (0987654321) on the copyright page. From the Dust Jacket: "In the image of the high plains drifter there is embodied the elemental spirit of the American character. And few have captured the essence of the relationship between the cowboy and the place that is the West as artist James Reynolds. His canvases are perhaps some of the most passionate and stirring ever to portray this mythical figure… James Reynolds -- considered a 'painter's painter' by his peers… In TRAILDUST, he provides… [a] fusion of Western images that art lovers have called a combination of Frederic Remington and Charles Russell... at once magnificent, lonely, proud, and poignant. James Reynolds's artistic talents and sensitivity to the cowboys, Indians, horses, cattle, and their landscape present a West that is as timeless as the subjects that dominate his images." This large, heavy book will require extra postage for Priority and International shipments (but only the standard charge for media mail). . First Printing of the First Edition. Oversize Hardcover. Fine condition/Fine dust jacket. Illus. by Reynolds, James (paintings). 156pp.