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[McMURTRY, Larry (1936-2021), his copy]. RECHY, John (b. 1931). City of Night. New York: Grove Press, [1963].
8vo. Original black cloth, black top stain (some spotting); original dust jacket. 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; also with McMurtry’s neat ownership signature penciled in upper corner of the front free endpaper.
FIRST EDITION, REVIEW COPY GIVEN TO LARRY McMURTRY, with both publisher’s slips laid in including one with McMurtry’s name and address printed on it. McMurtry once declared of Rechy’s work, “Probably no novel published in this decade is so complete, so well held together, and so important as City of Night”