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First edition of Larry McMurtry's The Last Picture Show
a beautiful copy

Larry McMurtry: First edition of The Last Picture Show

"Sometimes Sonny felt like he was the only human creature in town, It was a bad feeling, and it usually came on him in the mornings early, when the streets were completely empty, the way they were one Saturday morning in late November..."
MCMURTRY, Larry. The Last Picture Show. New York: The Dial Press, 1966. Octavo, original cloth, original dust jacket. $1100.

First edition of McMurtry's third novel, his classic coming-of-age story exploring the stifling isolation of growing up in a small Texas town. The basis for the award-winning 1971 film. A little strip of fading to top of the dust jacket flaps, otherwise a fine, beautiful copy.

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