Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry - 1985

VERY GOOD condition --- DUST JACKET: Minor wear & tear along top and bottom edges of panels, spine and outside corners at folds. Age toning to reverse. Residue from sticker on lower back panel. BOARDS: Very good condition. Rubbing/slight discoloration to front. BOOK: Very good condition. Couple of small stains to textblock foot. Please inspect photos closely for condition details. Any questions? Please don't hesitate to ask.


Here on offer is a very nice copy of Larry McMurtry's Pulitzer Prize winning novel, Lonesome Dove, the 3rd installment chronologically in the Lonesome Dove series. This is a true 1st trade edition, 1st printing of the work published by Simon & Schuster in 1985. The original dust jacket is protected from further wear by a Brodart sleeve.

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" 'Lonesome Dove' is a 1985 Western novel by American writer Larry McMurtry. It is the first published book of the 'Lonesome Dove' series, but the third installment in the series chronologically.

The story revolves around the relationships between several retired Texas Rangers and their adventures driving a cattle herd from Texas to Montana. Set in the closing years of the Old West, the novel explores themes of old age, death, unrequited love, and friendship.

The novel was a bestseller and won the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. In 1989, it was adapted as a TV miniseries starring Tommy Lee Jones and Robert Duvall, which won both critical and popular acclaim. McMurtry went on to write a sequel, 'Streets of Laredo' (1993), and two prequels, 'Dead Man's Walk' (1995) and 'Comanche Moon' (1997), all of which were also adapted as TV series."

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"Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read.
A love story, an adventure, and an epic of the frontier, Larry McMurtry's Pulitzer Prize-winning classic, Lonesome Dove, the third book in the Lonesome Dove tetralogy, is the grandest novel ever written about the last defiant wilderness of America.

Journey to the dusty little Texas town of Lonesome Dove and meet an unforgettable assortment of heroes and outlaws, whores and ladies, Indians and settlers. Richly authentic, beautifully written, always dramatic, Lonesome Dove is a book to make us laugh, weep, dream, and remember."

The above text was taken, respectively, from Wikipedia and Simon & Schuster (via Google Books).
[McMurtry, Larry. Lonesome Dove: A Novel. United Kingdom: Simon & Schuster, 2010.]


This handsome copy would be a worthy addendum to your 1st editions library.