Lonesome Dove, Larry McMurtry - First Edition, 1st Printing - 1985

First edition, first printing of Larry McMurtry's classic western, Lonesome Dove, in beautiful condition.

Octavo, 843pp. Black hardcover, blue cloth spine, title stamped in gilt on spine. True first printing, with a full number line on the copyright page and original $18.95 price printed on inside dust jacket flap. Contains spelling error 'no none nothing' on page 261, line 16.

Includes original dust jacket with no tears and minimal edge wear. Book plates are clean and binding is strong. There is some creasing on the spine consistent with having been read. Interior is clean with no markings, inscriptions, or paste-ins. Minor rubbing on bottom text block. Overall a very attractive copy with very minimal wear.

Lonesome Dove, first published in 1985 by Simon & Schuster, is considered by many to be the premier American Western novel. It was a critically acclaimed bestseller and won the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. In 1989, it was adapted as a TV miniseries starring Tommy Lee Jones and Robert Duvall, which won both critical and popular acclaim. McMurtry went on to write a sequel, Streets of Laredo (1993), and two prequels, Dead Man's Walk (1995) and Comanche Moon (1997), all of which were also adapted as TV series.