For your consideration is the Signed First Edition book, "An Honest Try", by world renowned sculptor Bob Scriver, 1975, Lowell Press Kansas City, Missouri publishers. "An Honest Try, An Essay In Bronze" is a collection showcasing Bob Scriver's award-winning Rodeo Series of Sculpture. Scriver (1914-1999) was a Montana sculptor who was born on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation in northwest Montana. A scholar of Blackfoot Indian culture and history who knew and associated with Blackfoot historian James Willard Schultz. He specialized in western subjects, but it is more accurate to associate him with the American Beaux Arts-educated sculptors who became prominent at the turn of the 19th century. Scriver is one of just a handful of Western artists elected to both the Cowboy Artists of America and the National Academy of Western Art. In the mid-Sixties the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association commissioned him to create a heroic-sized portrait of Bill Linderman, a famous champion. This was the beginning of a long association with the PRCA for whom he created many busts of outstanding people. Also, he embarked on a huge project: a large sculpture of each rodeo event plus portraits of representatives of participants, both animals and people. "An Honest Try," a bullrider, became his new trademark and the name of a book about these sculptures. A one-and-a-half lifesized version of the sculpture stands in Kansas City. Splendidly photographed by renowned photographer Asger Mikklesen, and reproduced in color and sepia tone, the Rodeo Series reflects all the action and nobility of the Western drama called rodeo. To turn the pages of this volume is akin to a whiff of sagebrush and a top seat on the corral fence. Artist's signature, "To Lou Best Wishes Bob Scriver '83" on page v opposite copyright page. Both front inside and rear inside of cover has signatures of rodeo stars's signatures including Bill Linderman and Jim Shoulders. This blue denim hardcover gold gilted book is in very nice condition, spine head cap and tail both have slight cracking from normal usage, pages in excellent condition, age tanning and foxing not evident, dust jacket has minimal scuffing. No other obvious marring noted, 8.25"W x 12.5"L x .5"D approximately.