Cottonwood / Scott Phillips
2004, First Edition. Arizona: Denis McMillan. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw with publisher's slip-case. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 308 pages; Physical description: 308 p. ; 24 cm. Subject: Criminals - Kansas - History - 19th century - Fiction. City and town life - Kansas - History - 19th century - Fiction. Kansas - Social conditions - 19th century - Fiction. Kansas - Fiction. Notes: Limited edition to 404 copies: 104 copies are bound in calfskin quarter-morocco with hand paper-covered boards, signed, lettered by the author, and 300 copies are bound in Brillianta cloth, signed and numbered by the author. This is cloth copy No. 274. Summary: Cottonwood, Kansas, 1872: Bill Ogden is an unfaithful husband and an unwilling farmer who has imperiled his marriage, not so much through his infidelities but because he has stolen his wife's inheritance to build a saloon. Marc Leval is a wealthy entrepreneur, newly arrived in town with a beautiful, lonely wife and an exciting agenda. He hopes to make sleepy Cottonwood into a thriving metropolis, and he requires Bill's help. The Benders are a family of serial killers who run the Cottonwood Hotel. And as railway money comes to town, Cottonwood's population of prospective victims is about to increase dramatically...Evocative, horrible and very funny, "Cottonwood" is the new, gripping read from the author of "The Ice Harvest" Item #193553
Price: €85.00