Texasville - 1st Edition/1st Printing by McMurtry, Larry - 1987

New York: Simon and Schuster. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1987. First Edition; First Printing. 1/4 Cloth. 0671625330 . A Near Fine first printing of the first edition with some wear mostly from aging housed in a like dust-jacket with creasing around the corners; Set in the small Texas town of Texasville in the early 1950s, Larry McMurtry's novel tells the story of the people who live there - the mayor, the alderman, the schoolteacher, the doctor, the lawyer, the gangsters, the prostitutes, and the small-town folk who just try to get by. The town is in the grip of the Great Depression and the people struggle to make ends meet. But Texasville is also a place where characters are born and secrets are kept, and it's a place where time slowly moves along and memories are both cherished and forgotten.; 8vo; 542 pages .