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  First Edition of The Last Picture Show; Signed by Larry McMurtry; From the Library of Fellow Novelist Peter Matthiessen

  MCMURTRY, Larry [Peter Matthiessen].

  The Last Picture Show.

  New York: The Dial Press, 1966.

  First edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author's third and one of his most memorable novels. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Larry McMurtry on the front free endpaper. From the library of fellow novelist, Peter Matthiessen with his bookplate to the front free endpaper. Peter Matthiessen remains the only writer to have won the National Book Award in both nonfiction (The Snow Leopard, 1979) and fiction (Shadow Country, 2008). A leading figure in fiction and non-fiction for six decades, he co-founded the famed Paris Review in 1953. A prominent environmental, Matthiessen received the National Book Award for Fiction in 2008 at the age of 81 for Shadow Country. “No one writes more lyrically [than Matthiessen] about animals or describes more movingly the spiritual experience of mountaintops, savannas, and the sea” (Michael Dirda). Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket drawing by J.J. Fox. An exceptional association linking these two great writers.

  Price: $2,850.00     Item Number: 151068

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