McMurtry, Larry

Sin Killer

ISBN: 0743233026
New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. "Larry McMurtry's Sin Killer, the first novel of a major four-volume work, is set in the West when it was still unexplored, with a rich, brilliant cast of characters, their lives as intertwined and memorable as those of Lonesome Dove, a work that is at once literature and great entertainment. It is 1830, and the Berrybender family, rich, aristocratic, English, and fiercely out of place, is on its way up the Missouri River to see the American West as it begins to open up. Accompanied by a large and varied collection of retainers, Lord and Lady Berrybender have abandoned their palatial home in England to explore the frontier and to broaden the horizons of their children, who include Tasmin, a budding young woman of grit, beauty, and determination, her vivacious and difficult sister, and her brother." (front flap) The first in the popular Berrybender Narratives historical novel series by Larry (Jeff) McMurtry (1936-2021), the highly acclaimed Pulitzer Prize-winning American author. As we would imagine from this inimitable & riveting storyteller, the aristocratic British Berrybenders find themselves way, way out of their element in the breathtakingly scenic but most challenging & perilous pre-settled early American West. Hardcover in unclipped dust jacket, first edition, first printing as indicated by number sequence at copyright page. From the collection of Barbara (1935-2023) & Irving (1933-2018) Nusbaum, world travellers, connoisseurs, eminent collectors of art & books- the dearly beloved parents of this grieving writer. A thrilling, page-turning McMurtry classic in its rarest contemporary trade form & with distinguished provenance. Book in very fine condition with only a touch of wear & very light browning, fading at/nearest edges & corners of front, back covers & spine; a bit of rubbing & occasional spotting to lower edge of text block. Interior very fine with only several thin, faint vertical wrinkle-creases across illustrated front paste-down (undoubtedly a minor flaw as issued); otherwise substantially mint. Dust jacket relatively quite fine-verging-on-very-fine with only a hint of rubbing to front, back covers & spine; very light wear & some tiny bumps, creases at/nearest edges & corners of same & flaps; several very small, light spot-marks at lower right area of front cover just above edge with miniscule loss of surface paper; small area of creasing from upper spine-edge, corners again with miniscule loss of surface paper. Very Fine / Fine-Very Fine. [Item #6092]

Price: $40.00