Adieu Gary Cooper

Réf. 65753

Vendu

Paris - Gallimard - 1969

Bookbinder : B. BICHON
Format : In-8.
Number of volumes : 1 volume.
Binding : Bound.
Collation : 279 pp.

In a bordered case. Orange half-shell binding with frame. Smooth spine with gilt title and gilt date on the tail. Cover and spine preserved. Binding signed B. BICHON.

FIRST EDITION. This one of 80 numbered copies on Lafuma-Navarre pure thread vellum, second paper, after 25 copies on Dutch Van Gelder vellum.

Farewell Gary Cooper is a novel first published in 1965 in English under the title The Ski Bum, literally The Ski Bum.

Lenny, the scoundrel in question is a young American who flees his country because he refuses to go to war in Vietnam. He gets involved with a community of young people who are only interested in skiing. But, when the need for money arises, he has to go down to join civilization and finds himself involved in a gold bullion trafficking business.

Perfect condition.