Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen: Reflections at Sixty and Beyond (Signed 1st Printing) by McMurtry, Larry - 1999

Simon & Schuster, 1999-11-05. First Edition. hardcover. Used: Good.

Simon & Schuster, 1999-11-05. hardcover. New. 5x0x6. May have light shelf wear due to warehouse storage and handling

Simon & Schuster. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Simon & Schuster, 1999-11-05. hardcover. New. 5x0x6.

Simon & Schuster, 1999-11-05. Hardcover. New. 5x0x6.

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New York: Simon & Schuster Pub. Good in Good dust jacket. 1999. first edition,1p"; Ex LIBRARY HARDCOVER. HARDCOVER. 6x9". GOOD CONDITION IN GOOD UNCLIPT(S21.00) DUST JACKET..Book has expected ex library distinctions. Sticker removal scar..various stickers, stamped "withdrawn"..solid, bright copy.. ; GOLD titles on BLUE CLOTH SPINE STRIP...DJ HAS WHITE & BLACK TITLES on Glossy blue dust jacket showing dairy Queen on desolate flat street..."out of town in distance...". Book itself has a few old photos of family characters ..endpapers shows large family gathering for picnic? ; 478pg pages; Cherokee Nation Oklahoma Story...Two Cherokee warriors named Zeke Proctor and Ned Christie race, love, and fight their way across the Ozark Mountains in an attempt to stay true to their heritage and elude the white law officers who are after them...They struggle to find honor in a harsh, violent land under the relentless pressure of white law and broken promises .

New York. 1999. November 1999. Simon & Schuster. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0684854961. 204 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Chip Kidd. keywords: Literature Autobiography America. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Using as a springboard an essay by the German literary critic Walter Benjamin that he first read in Archer City's Dairy Queen, McMurtry examines the small-town way of life that big oil and big ranching have nearly destroyed. He praises the virtues of everything from a lime Dr Pepper and the lost art of oral storytelling to the perfect piece of pie, and describes the brutal effect of the sheer vastness and emptiness of the Texas landscape on Texans, the decline of the cowboy, the significance of small-town rodeos (and rodeo queens), the reality and the myth of the frontier. McMurtry writes frankly and with deep feeling about his own experiences as a writer, a parent, a heart patient, and he deftly lays bare the raw material that helped shape his life's work: the creation… Read More

Simon & Schuster. hardcover. New. 5x0x6.

Very little wear to the book. The cover has paper covered boards, with blue fabric and gilt print over the spine. The pages are clean, tight and unmarked. The unclipped dust jacket has a few crimps and a little wear at the top corners. Written about 22 years prior to his death at age 84, this was McMutry's treatise on "growing up, growing famous and growing older".