LEONARD, ELMORE. 1925-2013. Hombre. London Robert Hale Limited, 1961.

The Library of David Lloyd, Part ILEONARD, ELMORE. 1925-2013.
Hombre. London: Robert Hale Limited, 1961. 8vo. Publisher's red cloth lettered in black. Pictorial dust jacket. Thumbed, foxing and spotting, ink stamps ("Greenwood Stationery") to front paste-down and last page of text, ownership inscription on front free endpaper, jacket lightly rubbed, some creasing and toning to edges. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, and the first in hardcover, published the same year as the U.S. edition in paperback. Leonard's fifth novel, it was adapted to the big screen in 1967, allowing him to leave his day job writing advertising content and concentrate on writing fiction. His next novel, The Big Bounce, was the first of his modern crime novels, for which he is best known.