McMurtry, Larry

Buffalo Girls

ISBN: 067168518X
New York, NY: Simon and Schuster, 1990. First Printing. Hardcover. “Larry McMurtry rediscovered the myth of the American West and gave it new life in his epic Pulitzer Prize-winning novel ‘Lonesome Dove,’ and in the best-selling ‘Anything for Billy.’ Now, in a novel as ambitious in scope as ‘Lonesome Dove’ and as richly ironic as ‘Anything for Billy,’ he writes of the life of Calamity Jane, a woman whose past embraces the whole short, violent, passionate history of the West from the mountain men who first made their way into Montana, Wyoming and the Dakotas in search of beaver pelts, to the buffalo hunters who destroyed the great herds, to the gunfighters, like Wild Bill Hickock (perhaps the love of Calamity Jane’s life), to the Indians and soldiers who fought the final battle that made the West no longer ‘wild.’” So reads the intrigue-generating front cover flap of the great American novelist, Larry McMurtry’s “Buffalo Girls,” — the follow-up to the bestselling “Anything for Billy,” as the flap copy dutifully trumpets. McMurtry as a novelist — if you take his plots at face value — may seem to build lazily on work earlier done. Is he the merchant of an aesthetic developed more fulsomely and inventively by others, we are wont to ask? Not so: and all it takes is a few pages of McMurtry to realize how masterfully his pen trots over these hoof-trodden plains. Hardcover in unclipped dust-jacket: First Edition, though not explicated as such on copyright page: First Printing, as indicated by number sequence thereon. From the collection of Barbara (1935-2023) & Irving (1933-2018) Nusbaum - world travelers, connoisseurs, eminent collectors of art & books, and the dearly beloved late parents of our esteemed founder, Arthur S. Nusbaum. Book in very fine condition, virtually as new with only mild-to-moderate shelf-wear, else pristine. Dust-jacket in very fine condition with only minute-to-moderate shelf-wear & few instances of very faint bump-creasing to fine-edges & corners of front, back covers & spine-edge, else pristine. Very Fine / Very Fine. [Item #6102]

Price: $60.00