The book has firm binding and no markings. The covers have wear, fading and creasing. Please see the photos. ~ Foreword by Slim Pickins ~ Illustrated by Joe Beeler "This candid and often ribald self-portrait of Frank Polk will not fail to satisfy a curiosity about a range cowboy, Hollywood cowboy, and cowboy artist. Frank caters delightfully to one's sense of the absurd. Born in Louisville, Kentucky to parents Frank and Rose Herman Polk, Frank Polk was a self-taught wood carver who became known as the "cowboy whittler" for his carving of rodeo and cowboy scenes in basswood. In the mid 1960s, he began sculpting in wax and then bronzing his pieces. Of his work, he said: "I am overly precise on authenticity and action, having experienced most of my themes, or at least seen them firsthand."