Telegraph Days by Larry McMurtry - 2006

New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006. SIGNED. 1st/1st. Like New. First Edition. First printing with number line ending in 1. Signed by Larry McMurtry on the title page. The book is tight and square with solid hinges and binding, good tips, and clean unmarred boards. Faint crease to spine head. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. The dust jacket is unclipped ($25.00) and Fine. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 289 Pages. 6¼ x 9½" tall.

"I've come to think that in times of crisis human beings don't have it in them to be rational. The Yazee gang was riding down upon us, six abreast. We all ran outside and confirmed that fact. The sensible thing would have been to run and hide -- but did we? Not at all."

Orphaned by her father's suicide, Nellie and her brother, Jackson, take jobs in the western town of Rita Blanca. She convinces the local sheriff into hiring Jackson as a deputy, while she takes over the vacant job of town telegrapher. When, by pure blind luck, Jackson shoots down the entire Yazee gang, Nellie is quick to capitalize on his new notoriety by selling reviews to reporters. It seems wherever Nellie is, action is sure to happen, from a love affair with Buffalo Bill to a ringside seat at the O.K. Corral gunfight.