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Author: McMurtry, Larry
Title: In A Narrow Grave: Essays on Texas
Place Published: Austin, TX
Publisher:The Encino Press
Date Published: 1968
Description: xviii, 177, [1] pp. Introduction; bibliography. (8vo) tan cloth, paper spine label, dust jacket.The rare first printing of McMurtry‘s first collection of essays. This issue is known among collectors as the “skycrapers“ printing, because of that typo on line 12 of page 105. Other errors include “in in“ on page 56, line 2 and the line beginning “Mr.“ in the second paragraph on page 134 repeated. The book was quickly withdrawn from distribution and a new, corrected version printed. Estimates of the number of surviving copies of the first printing vary, generally noted to be somewhere between 10 and 50 copies.
Author: McMurtry, Larry
Title: In A Narrow Grave: Essays on Texas
Place Published: Austin, TX
Publisher:The Encino Press
Date Published: 1968
Description: xviii, 177, [1] pp. Introduction; bibliography. (8vo) tan cloth, paper spine label, dust jacket.The rare first printing of McMurtry‘s first collection of essays. This issue is known among collectors as the “skycrapers“ printing, because of that typo on line 12 of page 105. Other errors include “in in“ on page 56, line 2 and the line beginning “Mr.“ in the second paragraph on page 134 repeated. The book was quickly withdrawn from distribution and a new, corrected version printed. Estimates of the number of surviving copies of the first printing vary, generally noted to be somewhere between 10 and 50 copies.
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Jacket with a few areas of dampstaining; some discoloration/staining to cloth; else near fine.
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McMurtry's Narrow Grave - Rare First Printing
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