Jay Dusard

The North American Cowboy: A Portrait

SIGNED Jay Dusard

Jay Dusard: The North American Cowboy: A Portrait. Photographs by Jay Dusard. Foreword by John Nichols. Introduction by Kurt Markus. Consortium Press, Prescott, AZ, 1983. 123 pp. Squarish quarto. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. Maroon cloth. With the dust jacket. SIGNED by Jay Dusard on the half title page. Inscribed and dated. 83 plates reproduced in Fultone. Notes on photographs appended.

From 1981 to 1983, Jay Dusard traveled throughout western North America, riding with working cowboys, vaqueros and buckaroos, photographing them with his 8 x 10 view camera. In all, he covered 25,000 miles, working at about 45 ranches in Canada, Mexico and the United States. The resulting photographs depict with clarity, honesty and beauty the men and women of the range while avoiding the tendency many photographers have to reduce them to a series of visual and cultural cliches. Dusard, shares his experiences while working on this project in detailed notes, while the book's text discusses the various types of cowboys.

Very good in a very good dust jacket. Boards show light wear. Some discoloration to the edges. Dust jacket is complete with light wear. Few scratches and scuff marks visible in the light. Little rubbing to the spine. Internally, tight binding. Hinges sound. Clean, crisp and clean photographs. Faint tanning to page edges.  

An outstanding copy of a scarce and beautiful book.

SIGNED by Jay Dusard.