True Grit.
PORTIS, Charles [Matt Damon].
True Grit.
"I don't need to buy that, I confiscate it": First Edition of True Grit; Signed by Matt Damon
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1968.
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Item Number: 150153
First edition of Portis’ classic work, basis for the 1969 John Wayne film and the 2010 Coen Brothers film starring Jeff Bridges and Matt Damon. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Academy Award-winning actor Matt Damon on the front free endpaper. Fine in a very good dust jacket with chipping and wear to the spine extremities. Jacket design by Paul Davis.
“It is a delight,” wrote Walker Percy of Charles Portis’s western, True Grit; “Mattie Ross from near Dardanelle, Arkansas, is here to stay, like Huck Finn.” The novel follows the determined young Mattie as she sets out to avenge her father’s murder, a narrative that, as The Guardian notes, “begins where chivalry meets the frontier.” Set in the rugged American West, True Grit introduces the unforgettable character of U.S. Marshal Rooster Cogburn, who was famously portrayed by John Wayne in the 1969 film adaptation—a role that earned him an Academy Award. Portis’s novel is widely celebrated for its distinctive voice, moral complexity, and enduring place in the American literary tradition.
