First Edition, First Printing, Signed by the Author
Texasville.
A Novel by Larry McMurtry. New York: Simon and Schuster , 1987.
First edition, signed by the author on front free endpaper. Octavo (9 3/16 x 6 3/8 inches; 232 x 162 mm). [1]- 542 pp. In dust jacket.Publisher's quarter blue cloth over red boards. Spine lettered and ruled in silver. Front board with author's signature stamped in blind. Top edge of text block a bit foxed. Some light toning to jacket flaps. Overall about fine.
"In Texasville, his eagerly awaited major new novel, McMurtry again takes as his subject Texas and Texans-but this time it is the Texas of the mid-1980s, 'in the trough of the oil glut,' where instant millionaires are in the process of becoming dazed instant debtors." (From the front flap).
HBS # 65798 $200




