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[McMURTRY, Larry (1936-2021), his copy]. SALINGER, J.D. (1919–2010). Franny and Zooey. Boston and Toronto: Little, Brown and Company, [1961].
8vo. Original dark grey cloth (spine sunned); original dust jacket (some uneven sunned on rear panel, small stain on spine). 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; and with McMurtry’s neat ownership signature dated 1969 on front free endpaper.
FIRST EDITION of a series of stories based on Franny and Zooey’s family, the Glasses, “settlers in 20th century New York… I’ve been waiting for them most of my life” the author wrote. “Franny” was originally published in The New Yorker in 1955 and “Zooey” in 1957.