Some Horses.
MCGUANE, Thomas.
Some Horses.
First Edition of Some Hores; Signed by Thomas McGuane
New York : The Lyons Press, 1999.
$200.00
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Item Number: 150713
First edition of this American West literary collection of essays. Octavo, original publisher’s half cloth, illustrated with black and white sketches. Boldly signed in the year of publication on the half-title page “Thomas McGuane Montana 1999.” Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by John Gray. Author photograph by Kurt Markus.
Some Horses (1977) by Thomas McGuane is a work of literary nonfiction that blends memoir, essay, and sporting literature through reflections on horseback riding and rural life in the American West. Using horses as both subject and metaphor, McGuane explores themes of freedom, discipline, and the tensions between modernity and traditional ways of living. The book’s episodic structure and reflective tone emphasize personal experience over technical instruction, situating equestrian practice within a broader meditation on identity, landscape, and American masculinity. In doing so, Some Horses exemplifies McGuane’s characteristic prose style, marked by wit, restraint, and an acute attentiveness to place.
