[WESTERN AMERICANA]. -- [McMURTRY, Larry (1936-2021), his copies]. A group of 3 titles, including: MARCY, R.B. Thirty Years of Army Life on the Border. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1866.
8vo. Numerous wood-engraved plates and illustrations in the text. Original gilt-stamped blue cloth (spine sunned, wear at ends). Provenance: John Winchester Dana (1808-1867), embossed stamps of the former American politician serving as the 19th and 21st Governor of Maine; Alan S. Dana (booklabel). FIRST EDITION. -- ADAMS, Andy. The Log of the Cowboy. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1903. 8vo. Illustrated by E. Boyd Smith. Original gilt-lettered burgundy cloth (spine sunned with some wear at ends, spotting to covers). Provenance: John Bennett Guthrie (bookplate and signature dated 1903). FIRST EDITION, in possibly a variant or remainder binding. -- GILLETT, James B. Six Years with the Texas Rangers, 1875 to 1881. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1925. Tall 8vo. Frontispiece. Original dark blue cloth (light rubbing to extremities). First revised edition, WITH MCMURTRY’S OWNERSHIP SIGNATURE dated 1969 on the front free endpaper.
Provenance: Larry McMurtry (his bookplates in each work, 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.