[Original Art]: Dust Jacket Art for Larry McMurtry's "Anything for Billy

by (McMURTRY, Larry) MINOR, Wendell

$6,500 · Offered by Biblio

First edition · In dust jacket

[No place, 1988. Unbound. Fine. Original art. Acrylic on board, viewable area measuring approximately 16¾ x 11¾", matted, glazed, and framed to approximately 25¾" x 20¾". Unexamined out of frame, but appears to be fine; the frame is modestly worn. Original dust jacket artwork by Wendell Minor for McMurtry's 1988 novel *Anything for Billy*, a novelization of the life of Billy the Kid. The twilight scene, featuring an adobe house, a hitching post, and a backlit tombstone, was painted by noted artist and illustrator Wendell Minor. Minor illustrated several dust jackets for McMurtry, including *Terms of Endearment*, *The Evening Star*, *Buffalo Girls*, and *Some Can Whistle*, as well as jackets for Toni Morrison, Pat Conroy, Ernest Gaines, James Michener, John Hersey, and Gloria Naylor.

• Year: 1988
• Edition: First Edition
• Binding: unknown

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