![]() ![]() An attached metal bookmark is fashioned after a credit card in Zachary Swan’s name, and the endpapers and slipcase are printed with images of hundred-dollar bills. In keeping with its subject matter, it’s bound in mirrors rather than boards, with silvered edges and spine. The title page is autographed by Sabbag, Marks, and Damien Hirst the latter contributed the book’s striking design. Nice” Marks, a notorious smuggler of cannabis. Printed in a limited, numbered edition of 1,000 copies, the volume features an introduction by Howard “Mr. celebrated this popularity in 1998 with this opulent reprint. Sabbag’s lively, literary prose and his subject’s outsized adventures have won the book critical acclaim and enduring popularity. Robert Sabbag’s semi-biographical Snowblind, first published in 1976, tells the story of Zachary Swan, a 1970s cocaine smuggler who relied on scams and ruses to move drugs past customs officials and keep himself out of harm’s way in the years before organized crime took control of the trade. ![]() ![]() This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. ![]()
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