IN A NARROW GRAVE: ESSAYS ON TEXAS - LIMITED EDITION, SIGNED

by Larry McMurtry

$2,000 · Offered by Captain Ahab's Rare Books · No longer available

First edition

Austin: The Encino Press, 1968. First Edition. Attractive copy of this early collection of nine essays on Texas, touching on themes of the end of the cowboy era and the exodus from the ranch to the city and suburbs Kirkus Review . Preceded by a first printing that was so littered with typographical errors the worst of them being skycrapers for skyscrapers on p.105 that it was recalled and destroyed, with surviving

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