“NOUVEAU RICHE ONLY A FEW MONTHS EARLIER, NOW NOUVEAU BANKRUPT”: FIRST EDITION OF TEXASVILLE, SIGNED BY LARRY MCMURTRY
MCMURTRY, Larry. Texasville. New York: Simon and Schuster, (1987). Octavo, original half blue cloth, original dust jacket.
First edition, first printing, of McMurtry’s sequel to The Last Picture Show, returning readers to the small town of Thalia in the aftermath of the 1980s oil boom, boldly signed on colophon page by Larry McMurtry.
The Pulitzer Prize-wining writer's sequel to his third novel, The Last Picture Show (1966), "shows off the author at his popular storytelling best, and it attests, again, to his sure feeling for people and place… A wonderfully digestible book that leaves a lingering cloud of sadness in the reader's mind" (New York Times).
A fine signed copy.