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[McMURTRY, Larry (1936-2021), his copy]. CRANE, Stephen (1871-1900). The Red Badge of Courage. An Episode of the American Civil War. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1896.
8vo. Title printed in red and black. Original tan buckram decorated in red, black and gold (spine sunned, few minor stains). Provenance: Larry McMurtry (his bookplate, which he designed, features the horseshoe-shaped brand his father and grandfather used on the McMurtry cattle), from his personal library at his home in Archer City; early ownership signature dated 1896.
Early edition, first published in 1895. “An extraordinary study of the common man amid the turmoil, clamor and distortion typified by war…its intensity, its startling yet inevitable descriptive phrase, struck a new note in American prose” (DAB). BAL 4071 (first edition); Grolier American 98.