Burnside Rare Books

The Big Sky

Guthrie, A.B., Jr.

New York: William Sloane Associates, 1947.

First edition. Signed by A.B. Guthrie Jr. on the front free endpaper, warmly inscribed in the year of publication, "For Porter Land-- an all-right guy although, unfortunately, a Democrat-- with the best of wishes from the author. [signed] A.B. Guthrie Jr. Lexington, Ky., April 28, 1947."

[iv], 386 pp. Bound in publisher's cloth with gray stamping. Near Fine with rubbing to gray on spine, bookplate on paste down, in a Very Good+ dust jacket with sunned spine panel, wear, unclipped ($3.50).

A popular Western novel that inspired the 1952 Howard Hawks film by the same name. Item #140944179

Price: $500.00