Charles Portis
True Grit | Signed First Edition
Simon and Schuster
1968
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Signed, first edition, first printing of Portis's True Grit, inscribed just months after publication.
- Charles Portis (American).
- New York: Simon and Schuster, (1968).
- 215 pages.
- Inscribed on the front free endpaper by Portis: "For Gerald Cathey / who I hope has / given me a clean / title, with every / good wish / Jan 7, 1969 / Charles Portis."
- Original blue-grey cloth, in original unclipped ($4.95) dust jacket designed by Paul Davis, ochre endpapers.
"People do not give it credence that a fourteen-year-old girl could leave home and go off in the wintertime to avenge her father's blood but it did not seem so strange then, although I will say it did not happen every day."
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Very GoodBook has slight lean, some fading to cloth, minor shelf wear.
Jacket has mild toning, sunning to spine.
A few small tears neatly repaired on verso; chip to one corner.
Front flap creased.
Product is used.
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