The Shootist

by Glendon Swarthout

$350 · Offered by Back Creek Books

First edition

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 186 pages. Novel about an Old West gunfighter with terminal cancer, deciding how to wrap up his life. Basis for the film of the same name starring John Wayne, Lauren Bacall and Jimmy Stewart. Ironically, John Wayne died of cancer just two years later, making this portrayal of a

• Binding: Hardcover

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