Close Range, Wyoming Stories by PROULX, Annie - 1999

New York: Scribner's, 1999. William Matthew. Octavo. (24.5 cm.) 283 pp., vi ills. Sea-foam green half cloth. Black spine with titles in silver gilt. Photo illustration of watercolor art on dust jacket. Very slight and contained wrinkling to bottom of front end paper and half-title page. Overall Fine. "Close Range, Wyoming Stories", was a triumphant return to the short story format for novelist, Annie Proulx. The stories were originally published in magazines but were compiled by the publisher, Scribner and Proulx for this special edition. The book hearkens back to the Scribner's tradition of illustrated fiction, incorporating Proulx's spare, piercing style with artist William Matthew's watercolor Western Realism. Includes the heartbreaking short story, "Brokeback Mountain", made into an equally heartbreaking movie directed by Ang Lee.