In a Narrow Grave: Essays on Texas

Austin, TX: The Encino Press, 1968. Second printing. Signed by Larry McMurtry on the top margin of the title page. xviii, 378 pp. Bound in publisher's tan cloth, front lettered in black, title label to spine. Near Fine, light foxing along edges, toning to endpapers, in a price-clipped dust jacket, lightly worn along fore edge, Very Good+. The late author and bookseller's first nonfiction book, an homage to the past and present of the Lone Star State, where he grew up a precociously observant hand on his father's ranch.