First Edition, First Printing, Signed by the Author
MCMURTRY, Larry. Texasville. A Novel by Larry McMurtry. New York: Simon and Schuster , 1987.
First edition, signed by the author on front free endpaper. Octavo (9 3/16 x 6 3/8 inches; 232 x 162 mm). [1]- 542 pp. In dust jacket.

Publisher's quarter blue cloth over red boards. Spine lettered and ruled in silver. Front board with author's signature stamped in blind. Top edge of text block a bit foxed. Some light toning to jacket flaps. Overall about fine.

"In Texasville, his eagerly awaited major new novel, McMurtry again takes as his subject Texas and Texans-but this time it is the Texas of the mid-1980s, 'in the trough of the oil glut,' where instant millionaires are in the process of becoming dazed instant debtors." (From the front flap).

HBS # 65798 $200