New York: Hyperion, (1998). First edition. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the title page. Near fine in dust jacket. Item #47882 More

New York: Simon & Schuster, (1990). First edition. INSCRIBED by the author on front endpaper. Tiny crimp at base of spine still fine in fine dust jacket. Item #52327 More

New York: Simon & Schuster, (1983). First edition. INSCRIBED on the title page "For Pat" and SIGNED quite legibly "Larry McMurtry." Blind stamp to half-title otherwise fine in fine dust jacket. Item #48210 More

New York: The Dial Press, 1966. First edition. INSCRIBED BY MCMURTRY TO PAUL "DR. Z" ZIMMERMAN and first wife, "For Paul and Katie Zimmerman, How it is in Texas - or, at least, how it was - With my Best wishes, Larry McMurtry." Light foxing to endpapers and page edges..... Item #54150 More

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1970. First edition. Uncorrected proof in tall, narrow, yellow paperwraps as issued without paper spine. INSCRIBED, "For Sally & Charlie/ in friendship/ Larry McMurtry/ 6-9-70." McMurtry's long-standing policy against signing proofs makes this inscribed copy a rarity. Very good or better with few tiny staple..... Item #55071 More

New York: Atheneum, 1988. First edition. Scare hardcover issue. INSCRIBED BY MERWIN on half-title page, “Warm and good wishes to/ Jane and Walter Sullivan/ Sewanee/ 1/22/90/ William.” Walter Sullivan (1924-2006) was an author, critic, longtime Vanderbilt University professor, authority on Southern literature and one of the founding members of The..... Item #72202 More

New York: Viking Press, 1930. First edition. Credited by music historian Elijah Wald with having “the first printed description of a Mississippi juke joint” (“The Blue Blues,” Oxford American, Issue 75, Winter 2011). INSCRIBED BY MILLEN on front endpaper, "Inscribed for/ my friend George Woodruff/ with sincere personal regards/ Gilmore..... Item #72040 More

San Francisco: The Colt Press, 1941). First edition. This non-pornographic piece must have disappointed publishers anticipating something more lurid from Miller after his "Tropic of Cancer" because ten New York publishers rejected it before Colt Press accepted it with an advance of only 100 USD [Shifreen & Jackson A26b]. INSCRIBED..... Item #53844 More

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1959. First edition of the journalist and author's first novel. A WWII veteran returns to Sicily after the war to work as a geologist and search for his lost love. SIGNED and INSCRIBED on front endpaper, "To Colonel [Egbert] White/ the finest commanding officer/ of..... Item #71889 More

Philadelphia: Oswald Train, 1971. First edition thus: facsimile reprint. Association copy INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the publisher, "For my friend Allen J. Hubin, a/ belated token of a very pleasant/ visit here in Phialadelphia. This/ is the first copy, out of the first/ carton. With sincere admiration/ of a great..... Item #72085 More

London: Collins, (1985). First edition. INSCRIBED on title page, "To Philip --/ with all best wishes -/ Patricia Moyes/ Bouchercon, Baltimore, 1986." Near fine in near fine dust jacket with light wear to base of spine. Item #72105 More

No-place: no-publisher, circa 1998. First edition. Would appear to have been self-published. INSCRIBED TO THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING POET LAUREATE, ANTHONY HECHT beneath the printed dedication (to the author's father), "and to Anthony Hecht/ from Timothy Murphy/ in the hard [above where he has crossed out "dark"] hours of 1999." No..... Item #72011 More

Boston, Toronto: Little, Brown & Co., (1955). First edition. His third book of poetry. INSCRIBED "for Virginia Albee, with best wishes, Howard Nemerov 7 ii 55." The black paper-covered pictorial boards show wear on corners and spine ends; in dust jacket with matching wear and tape on verso at top..... Item #43007 More