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[McMURTRY, Larry (1936-2021), his copy]. YATES, Richard (1926-1992). Revolutionary Road. Boston and Toronto: Little, Brown and Company, [1961].
8vo. Original two-tone cloth, gilt-lettered spine (light spotting on top edge); original promotional dust jacket (spine and flap edges sunned, few tiny scattered stains). (Half-title and title-page bumped at top edge). 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; Walter V. Rynar (business card from an executive at Little, Brown and Company laid in).
FIRST EDITION, ADVANCE READING COPY of the author’s first novel that was adapted into the 2008 romantic drama of the same name starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet.