MOVING ON, Larry McMurtry, 1st Printing of 4th novel (Texas, rodeo themes)

Description: First Edition. [1970]. Near Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket. Gray boards quarterbound in brown cloth. The spine is stamped in brown, gilt, and red. Quarto. 794pps. Stated First Printing. Book is clean, bright, square, and soundly bound,no previous ownership markings. There is crimping to the title pages, as pictured. The dustjacket is lightly soiled, the original price (7.95) is intact. A very nice, collector's-quality copy of this early McMurtry novel. ".A big, powerful novel about men and women in the American West. Set in the 1960s against the backdrop of the honky-tonk glamour of the rodeo and the desperation of suburban Houston, it is the story of the restless and lovable Patsy Carpenter, one of Larry McMurtry's most unforgettable characters. Patsy -- young, beautiful, with a sharp tongue and an irresistible charm -- and her shiftless husband, Jim, are adrift in the West. Patsy moves through affairs of the heart like small towns -- there's Pete, the rodeo clown, and Hank, the graduate student, and others -- always in search of the life that seems ever receding around the next bend. Peopled with a riotously colorful cast of highbrows, cowpokes, and rodeo queens, in its wry humor, tenderness, and epic panorama, 'Moving On' is a celebration of our land by one of America's best-loved authors.

Price: 40 USD

Location: Somerville, New Jersey

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