The inscribee, Brian Curtiss, was McMurtry's friend as well as a shopkeeper who worked near Larry McMurtry's Georgetown bookstore "Booked Up" at 31st and M Street. Dust jacket slightly short, but conforming to all first edition points. In The Last Picture Show, "one of Larry McMurtry's most powerful, memorable novels," he introduced characters who would return in his later novels Texasville and Duane's Depressed ( Boston Globe). $3000.įirst edition of McMurtry's popular third novel, warmly inscribed: "For Brian Curtiss-whose delicacy in regard to the feelings of harassed - novelists is both admirable and rare-with my Best Wishes-Larry McMurtry. Octavo, original tan cloth, original dust jacket. "BOTH ADMIRABLE AND RARE": FIRST EDITION OF THE LAST PICTURE SHOW, WARMLY INSCRIBED BY LARRY MCMURTRY TO A FRIEND WHO WORKED IN A SHOP NEAR MCMURTRY'S DC BOOKSTORE
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