GUTHRIE, Alfred B., Jr. (1901–1991). A group 4 first editions, including:

The Big Sky. New York: William Sloane Associates, [1947]. 8vo. Original brown cloth; original special limited edition dust jacket and trade edition dust jackets (limited jacket toned, some general rubbing). FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 323 of 500 copies for booksellers and reviewers, SIGNED BY GUTHRIE on the limitation. -- The Way West. New York: William Sloane Associates, [1949]. 8vo. Original blue cloth-backed gray boards, spine lettered in silver (minor rubbing, some offsetting to endleaves); original dust jacket (spine a bit sunned, some light rubbing, edgewear). FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY GUTHRIE on the front free endpaper. -- These Thousand Hills. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1956]. 8vo. Original brown cloth, spine stamped in yellow and black (minor rubbing to binding); original price-clipped dust jacket (spine toned, some mild edgewear). -- The Big It. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1960. Original black cloth-backed brown boards (light rubbing to binding); original dust jacket (spine sunned, some rubbing, edgewear to jacket).

The Way West won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and was the basis for the 1967 film starring Kirk Douglas and Robert Mitchum, directed by Andrew V. McLaglen.