Somebody's Darling by Larry McMurtry - 1978

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1978. SIGNED. 1st/1st. VG/VG. First Edition. First printing with complete 10 number line starting with 1. Signed by Larry McMurtry on a bookplate on the front endpaper. The book is tight and square with solid hinges, good tips, and clean boards. Spine head gently pushed. Simon & Schuster "The Sowing Man" remainder stamp to bottom fore-edges. The textblock is clean with no writing or previous owner's bookplate, and not BCE or ex-library. The dust jacket is unclipped ($10.00) with light crimping to spine ends and mild toning to panel and flaps. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover.

A Hollywood fable that is both immediate and relevant in today's dynamic cultural climate. One would never guess that Jill Peel is still on the verge of stardom. Jill won an Oscar shortly after her fresh-faced arrival in 1950s Hollywood, then for the next twenty years batted away every Tinseltown producer who tried to hire her and get her into bed. Now middle-aged, she's determined to create more movie magic by directing a cast of raunchy eccentrics, including Joe Percy -- an aging womanizing screenwriter -- and ex-football player Owen Oarson, eager to sleep his way to leading-man stardom. Teeming with biting humor and intriguing characters that mirror the scandals of modern-day Hollywood, Somebody's Darling is a timeless story about a fiercely capable woman who dares to challenge the realities of a deceptively seductive Babel.