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  "For Larry McMurtry with thanks for the pleasure of your company and your good book": First edition, advance reading copy of The Joy Luck Club; inscribed by Amy Tan to Larry McMurtry

  TAN, Amy [Larry McMurtry].

  The Joy Luck Club.

  New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1989.

  First edition, advance reading copy of Tan's masterpiece. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For Larry McMurtry with thanks for the pleasure of your company and your good book. Amy 5 Apr '90." The recipient, Larry McMurtry remains best known for his 1985 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Lonesome Dove which was adapted into a television miniseries that earned 18 Emmy Award nominations. McMurtry was also a prominent book collector and bookseller. In 1970 with two partners, he opened a book store in Georgetown, which he named Booked Up and 1988 he opened another Booked Up in Archer City which became one of the largest antiquarian bookstores in the United States, carrying between 400,000 and 450,000 titles. With the original typed transmittal letter signed by Amy Tan on her letterhead which reads in part: April 5, 1990 Dear Larry, I’d be honored to have my bound galley of THE JOY LUCK CLUB gracing your shelves. I keep thinking about your bookstore and what it contains. It reminded me of a time when I was six years old. I had walked into a sweet shop in Oakland with five cents and hundreds of choices of penny candy. Let me tell you, your bookstore was better than that. I didn’t get chased out after two hours of not being able to decide. And I thank you for t...

  Price: $1,600.00     Item Number: 143578

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