"HERE'S A VAST BUNCH OF COWBOY": FIRST EDITION OF LONESOME DOVE
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.
Winner of the 1986 Pulitzer Prize, McMurtry's novel "gives us conversationless cowboys whose greatest fear is that they will have to speak to a woman, beastly buffalo hunters, murderous Indians, destitute Indians, prairie pioneers, river boat men, gamblers, scouts, cavalry officers, prostitutes, backwoodsmen; open plains and cow towns; the Nueces River and the Platte and the Yellowstone. Everything about the book feels true; being anti-mythic is a great aid to accuracy about the lonely, ignorant, violent West" (Nicholas Lemann).
A splendid copy in fine condition.