Mani in Alto: Storie Criminali del Far West nelle Memorie del Generale Cook
Milan: Lerici Editori, 1964. Hardcover. 403, [1] p., 8 leaves of illustrations; 21 cm. Hardback with illustrated cover. Original clear acetate dust jacket. Translation by Adriana Dell'Orto of Hands Up, or Twenty Years of Detective Life in the Mountains and on the Plains. The author, David J. Cook (1840-1907), was a marshal in Denver, Colorado; sheriff of Arapahoe County; Deputy U.S. Marshal for Colorado; and a major general of the Colorado militia. Text is in Italian. Gift inscription on front free endpaper in Italian and English to architects Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown. Scarce. In Very Good Condition: cover is slightly sunned; ding in upper edge of front cover and fore-edge of back cover; lower corners are slightly bumped; soiled along upper edge of cover; browning along edges of pages; otherwise, clean and solid. Dust jacket is in Very Good Condition: rubbed and sunned; solid. Very Good / very good. Item #011171
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