Elmore Leonard — Hombre

London, Robert Hale, 1961 . First edition. Cloth. The uncommon first UK edition of Elmore Leonard's critically acclaimed revisionist western novel. With the front wrap of the original dust wrapper adhered to the front board. The uncommon first UK edition, first impression of Elmore Leonard's classic of the western genre.This UK edition was the first hardcover edition of the novel, with publication preceded only by the US first edition, which was a paperback.In the publisher's original cloth binding, but with the front wrap of the original dust wrapper adhered to the front board.Leonard's novel tells the tale of an Apache man who leaves the passengers of an attacked stagecoach to safety through perilous desert. In 1967, the novel was adapted into a celebrated motion picture, starring Paul Newman in the central role.With a fine facsimile dust wrapper. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Front wrap of publisher's original dust wrapper adhered to front board. Bumping to back strip head and tail, with rubbing to joints. In a fine facsimile dust wrapper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and generally clean, with only one or two spots, and the odd light handling mark. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: None. Very Good Indeed .