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Pretty Boy Floyd
by Larry McMurtry, Diana Ossana
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0671891650
- ISBN 13
- 9780671891657
- Seller
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Carrollton, Texas, United States
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About This Item
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994. DOUBLE SIGNED. 1st/1st. NF/NF. First Edition. First printing with complete 10 number line ending in 1. Signed by both Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana on the title page. The book is tight and square with solid hinges and binding, good tips, and clean unmarred boards. Light creases to spine ends. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. The dust jacket is unclipped ($24.00) with light rubbing, including two small faded circular spots on the front panel (see photos). Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 444 pages.
The time is 1925. The place, St. Louis, Missouri. Charley Floyd, a good-looking, sweet-smiling country boy from Oklahoma, is about to rob his first armored car.
Written by Pulitzer Prize-winner Larry McMurtry and his writing partner, Diana Ossana, Pretty Boy Floydtraces the wild career of this legendary American folk hero, a young man so charming that it's hard not to like him, even as he's robbing you at gunpoint. From the bank heists and shootings that make him Public Enemy Number One to the women who love him, from the glamour-hungry nation that worships him to the G-men who track Charley down, Pretty Boy Floyd is both a richly comic masterpiece and an American tragedy about the price of fame and the corruption of innocence.
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- Bookseller
- Armadillo Alley Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3163
- Title
- Pretty Boy Floyd
- Author
- Larry McMurtry, Diana Ossana
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition / First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0671891650
- ISBN 13
- 9780671891657
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1994
- Keywords
- g men, fbi, gangsters, crime, depression most wanted, oklahoma, roaring 20s
- Bookseller catalogs
- First Editions; Signed Books;
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Armadillo Alley Books
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- Jacket
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- Brodart
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- New
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- First Edition
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Spine
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