Lightest wear to extremities of bright dust jacket with a half-inch closed tear to top of back panel. Interior fine small bump to top right corner of front board. First printing, with code “D-L” on copyright page. Basis for the 1963 film Hud, starring Paul Newman, which won Oscars for Best Actress Patricia Neal, Best Supporting Actor Melvyn Douglas, and Best Cinematographer James Wong Howe. “The literature of the American West that most of us know… is inspired by nostalgia and aims to give heroic dimensions to its characters and events… McMurtry founds his stories upon such detail of foreground landscape, spoken language, vital character description, and realistic conception as make fictional events memorable for their authenticity rather than mythic effect” (Vinson, 941).
Octavo, original half orange cloth, original dust jacket.įirst edition, first printing, of McMurtry’s scarce first novel. FIRST EDITION OF LARRY MCMURTRY’S FIRST BOOK, HORSEMAN, PASS BY
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