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[McMURTRY, Larry (1936-2021), his copy]. RIDING, Laura (1901-1991). Contemporaries and Snobs. London: Jonathan Cape, [1928].
8vo. Original tan cloth, spine lettered in blue (spotting to covers); original unclipped dust jacket (spine sunned, a bit of light rubbing at extreme ends). 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.
FIRST EDITION of this rare collection of essays by Riding whose poetry is considered “an important force of the international avant-garde” (Paul Auster in the New York Review of Books).