The Desert Rose
by McMurtry, Larry
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near fine/Near fine
- ISBN 10
- 0671461435
- ISBN 13
- 9780671461430
- Seller
-
Portland, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Near fine. A novel about a Las Vegas showgirl. In his memoir Literary Life, McMurtry said he wrote this novel "in twenty-two days" and that the book "seemed to flow out of me as rapidly as I could type. The Desert Rose was supposed to have been a screenplay, but, to my intense relief, it came out as a novel. I had hardly written a sentence I liked for eight years: to actually enjoy my own prose again was a big, big deal" (p. 91).
254 pages. First edition (first printing with a numberline ending in 1). A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket (no remainder mark). A very nice copy. Signed by McMurtry across the first blank.
254 pages. First edition (first printing with a numberline ending in 1). A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket (no remainder mark). A very nice copy. Signed by McMurtry across the first blank.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Downtown Brown Books, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 357936
- Title
- The Desert Rose
- Author
- McMurtry, Larry
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0671461435
- ISBN 13
- 9780671461430
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1983
- Keywords
- mf33
- Bookseller catalogs
- FICTION;
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