ANYTHING FOR BILLY by Larry McMurtry First Edition First Printing HC$DJ

Description: First edition first printing of Anything for Billy by Larry McMurtry. Published by Simon and Schuster, New York, 1988, hardcover. Both book and dust jacket are in very good condition, there is no writing or tears, dust jacket slightly rubbed with slight bumping to upper spine and book has slight staining to upper bookblock, see pictures. This is not a book club copy, price intact to dust jacket and full number line on copyright page starting at 1.. From Publisher´s Weekly. Anything for Billy is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author's affectionate ode to dime novels, Billy the Kid, and the wild, wild West. Benjamin Sippy is a successful but unfulfilled pulp fiction writer who, suffering the throes of midlife crisis, has abruptly fled his stable Philadelphia life, wife and nine daughters in search of the lawless West of his bestselling stories. After a comically abortive attempt at train-robbing, ``Mr. Sippy''his name the constant butt of jokes happens quite by accident upon a cowboy named Joe Lovelady and his sidekick, a kid of 20 named Billy Bone, whose brash unpredictability and one accidental shooting have earned him an undeserved but welcome reputation as a dangerous gunslinger. In the brisk, folksy style of the old-timey dimestore novel, this fictional memoir of Billy the Kid is told through the eyes of a fish-out-of-water Eastern writer who just happened to be along for the ride, saw it all and aims to set the record straight. Larry McMurtry is the author of twenty-nine novels, including the Pulitzer Prize–winning Lonesome Dove, three memoirs, two collections of essays, and more than thirty screenplays.

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Location: Athol, Idaho

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