Inscribed Copy of Larry McMurtry's Terms of Endearment

Larry McMurtry. TERMS OF ENDEARMENT: A NOVEL. New York: Simon & Schuster, [1975]. Second printing. Inscribed and signed by McMurtry on the first free endpaper. Hardcover. Quarter brown cloth over tan paper-covered boards; in unclipped pictorial dust jacket. 8vo; 410pp.

8 5/8 x 5 5/8 in.

From a Private North Carolina Collection

Terms of Endearment, one of McMurtry's most popular novels, was adapted into an Academy Award-winning film starring Jack Nicholson and Shirley MacLaine.

Boards with toning to edges and one small tear to paper; spine cocked, with light wear to ends and some separation from text block at head; overall a lovely interior with some light wear to page edges, toning, a couple of pages with small stains, and minor gutter cracking starting before final free endpaper; dust jacket with areas of toning, overall mild edge wear with heaviest including chips to spine ends and front cover, light creasing and scuffing, a couple of tiny pin holes to one fold, and the verso with light foxing and a couple of minor damp stains along the bottom edge, in a removable protective mylar jacket. About very good in like jacket.