“YESTERDAY’S GONE ON DOWN THE RIVER AND YOU CAN'T GET IT BACK”: FIRST EDITION OF LONESOME DOVE, SIGNED BY MCMURTRY
MCMURTRY, Larry. Lonesome Dove. New York: Simon and Schuster, (1985). Octavo, original half black cloth, original dust jacket.
First edition, first printing, of McMurtry’s sweeping, Pulitzer-Prize winning novel of the West, boldly signed by McMurtry.
When writing the now-classic modern Western for which he won the Pulitzer Prize, McMurtry "reached back to the stories he had heard of that vanished era when cattle were driven from his native Texas to railheads in Missouri and Kansas. 'It grew out of my sense of having heard my uncles talk about the extraordinary days when the range was open… In my boyhood I could talk to men who touched this experience and knew it… I wanted to see if I could make that real" (New York Times, contemporary interview). "McMurtry shows… a quest misplaced in history, in a landscape that is bare of buffalo but still mythic… This is a masterly novel" (Kirkus). Notably adapted for television in 1989, one of the last major network primetime miniseries.
Book with a bit of soiling to boards, dust jacket fine. An about-fine copy.