IN A NARROW GRAVE ESSAYS ON TEXAS by McMurtry, Larry - 1968

New York, NY: A Touchstone Book. Good with No dust jacket as issued. 1989. 4th Printing. Trade Size Paperback. 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 177 pages; Trade Size Soft Cover Paperback, No Dust Jacket, Book Shows Wear, Water Stained, Pages Browning due to age; BX54 .

Touchstone / Simon & Schuster. Good. 1968. Paperback. 0 pages .

Liveright Pub Corp, 2018. Paperback. New. 204 pages. 8.00x5.00x0.50 inches.

Austin: Encino Press, 1968. reprint. Hardcover. FINE /fine. SIGNED in brown ink and legible "Lr McMurtry" on the free front endsheet, tan endpapers, 4th printing with the letter C on c.r. page. Price unclipped grey DJ in mylar. Black spine titles on brown cloth. Copy of newspaper clipping with author's photo, extracted from Dec. 8, 1968 Dallas Morning News. A lengthy review by Lon Tinkle. "Though what follows is not a single essay, it is, I believe, continuous. My vision of existence is based almost entirely upon a prolonged scrutiny of West Texas and is probably too dry and flat...the attitude in the following pages belongs to me, not to my subject." - From the author's preface. WHALEY 38. Nice to have this classic in such fine condition as well as signed.

VG. Jacket in mylar, 4th printing.

Austin: Encino Press, 1968. 4th printing with "C" on the copyright page. Hardcover. A fine copy in dust jacket. Inscribed by the author on the front endpaper: "For ____________/ with my best / wishes / Larry McMurtry." An early readable, normal full signature. This book distills the classic statement of what it means to come from Texas. Some say this book is the author's best. Dust jacket has the flap price of $7.50. 177 pages. Design by William D. Wittliff.

Austin, TX: The Encino Press. First edition, second state with "skyscrapers" corrected on page 105, line 12. There is a neat inscription on front free endpaper: "To Tom / July 2, 1973" - there is no accompanying signature. First state DJ with front DJ flap showing "wtih" for "with" and "head" for "heard". A great copy. . Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 1968.

Austin: The Encino Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1968. First Edition; Second Printing. Hardcover. SIGNED and INSCRIBED by McMurtry in black marker on the flyleaf. Inscription reads "For Nelson - this book seems to be a bibliographic mystery - best Larry McMurtry." Later McMurtry signature that is more his initials than his full name. Second book Printing with corrected printing errors in the book. First state dust jacket - jacket has the printing error "wtih" instead of "with" and "head" instead of "heard", both on the front flap. Previous owner small name stamp on first free endpaper. Minor soiling to side page edges and covers. Dust jacket has its original price of $7.50. Jacket has some minor soiling. Dust jacket protected in a clear plastic Brodart cover. Ships same or next business day very well protected in a box. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 177 pages; Signed by Author .

Austin: The Encino Press, 1968. Second Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. Second Printing. A fine book in a fine dust jacket. This is the second printing of the first edition, corrected after numerous typographical errors were found in the first printing. Signed by McMurtry in an early and legible hand. Also, signed by Fred Whitcliff, who designed the book. Signed by the author.

Austin: The Encino Press, 1968.. Large octavo. Reversed calf backed printed boards, gilt label. A bit of slight tanning at endsheet gutters, otherwise near fine in fine slipcase. First edition, corrected printing, limited issue. One of 250 numbered copies, specially printed on untrimmed Artlaid paper, specially bound, and signed by the author. This copy is also signed by the publisher/designer Wm. Wittliff on the recto of the rear free endsheet. A collection of essays marking a watershed in Southwestern letters.

1965 - First Edition stated - A Tiger Mann Mystery - "...for Tiger is told on his wedding day that he is needed for Operation Plato." - book: very good - tight, sound, and square - no previous owner markings - dj: vibrant colors with some rubbing to the black base and abstract sun - interesting black and white photo of Spillane on the back cover - a few chips repaired with archival tape - dj in protective mylar sleeve

2014 - 1st ed stated ("1" in number line) - INSCRIBED - authors debut book - "Fourteen-year-old Audrey martin, with her Poindexter glasses and her head humming the 3/4 meter of gospel music, knows she'll never get out of Kentucky - but when her fingers touch the pion keys, the whole church trembles." - book: very good (like new) - dj: very good (like new) - dj in protective mylar sleeve

First edition. Spine ends lightly rubbed, spine has small nick, small reddish stain to front cover and rear cover, otherwise very good or better. Lacks dust jacket.

New York, Grove Press, 2022, trade paperback, 272 pp, Advance Uncorrected Proof (ARC), New. Straight, tight and clean with no wear or markings in bright, pictorial card covers, no dustjacket as issued. The pieces in this collection, written between 1956 and 1961 and including short fiction, a radio play, and a stunning early novel, offer startling insights into Cohens imagination and creative process. Cohen explores themes that would permeate his later work, from shame and unworthiness to sexual desire in all its sacred and profane dimensions to longing, whether for love, family, freedom, or transcendence. ISBN 9780802160478

Paris Editions Denoel, 1992, First Edition. paperback. First edition, Paris 1992, one of 3443 printed. -- Text (the cartoon captions) in FRENCH. -- Softcover, 8.3x10.8 inches, stiff cover with flaps. Condition: near fine (small surface scratch rear cover). -- Nice collectible example of Sempe's classic cartoon work, familiar to New Yorker readers. ISBN 220723861X

First Edition/First Printing with the complete number line; A Fine book in a Fine dust jacket with no visible flaws, as new and unread. SIGNED by the author on a tipped-in page. A pristine copy of this novel from the Pulitzer winning author of "A Visit From the Good Squad". Not remaindered, not price clipped, not ex-library; in a protective Mylar cover and will ship in a sturdy box.

New York: Periscope-Holliday, 1965. First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine-. First American Edition of two early novels. 8vo: [4],328pp. Publisher's quarter-bound black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, slate grey paper-covered boards; dust jacket, priced $4.75, replicating (separately, on front and back panels) Osbert Lancaster's illustrations for the original wrappers. Near Fine (top edge soiled and stained, gilt a bit faded, gift inscription on fly-leaf); about Fine jacket. Lilley A.10. First collected in 1952 by Rinehart for the Periscope Book Shop and Holliday Bookshop in New York; the unsold stock was reissued in 1965 by Little, Brown, Powell's then American publisher (our copy), with publisher's label pasted to jacket's spine panel. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions… Read More

Random House, 1947. 1st Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Book has some toning to the edges; one word previous owner's name to the front free endpaper. The unclipped jacket ($2.50) has light wear to the spine ends /corners and toning to the rear panel. A very good or better copy.

Beacon Press, 2021. 1st Edition. . Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket. Uncorrected Galleys. Fine in illustrated wraps. By the author of Corregidora.

Eric Berry: The Polynesian Triangle, 1968 Funk & Wagnalls. USED. VERY GOOD CONDITION/ VERY GOOD UNCLIPPED ORIGINAL DUST JACKET. SCARCE THUS. States First Published in the United States of America 1968. SUMMARY: THE 3,000 YEAR HISTORY OF POLYNESIA AND ITS PEOPLES. ANTHROPOLOGY. A NICE FIND.