“HERE’S A VAST BUNCH OF COWBOY”: FIRST EDITION OF LONESOME DOVE, SIGNED BY LARRY MCMURTRY
MCMURTRY, Larry. Lonesome Dove. New York: Simon and Schuster, (1985). Octavo, original half black cloth, original dust jacket.
First edition, first printing, of this sweeping, Pulitzer-Prize winning novel of the West, signed by the author.
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 fine signed copy.