B A U M A N R A R E B O O K S H O L I D A Y G I F T S II * 2 0 2 3 16 "ALL THE COWBOYS YOU'LL EVER NEED": FIRST EDITIONS OF THE FOUR VOLUMES OF THE LONESOME DOVE TETRALOGY, EACH INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY MCMURTRY 16. MCMURTRY, Larry. Lonesome Dove. WITH: Streets of Laredo. WITH: Dead Man’s Walk. WITH: Comanche Moon. New York, 1985, 1993, 1995, 1997. Together, four volumes. Octavo, original half cloth, dust jackets. $5500 First editions of McMurtry’s sweeping, Pulitzer-Prize winning saga of the West, the four volumes of his Lonesome Dove series, each inscribed and signed by McMurtry to the same person. Lonesome Dove inscribed on the front free endpaper: “For Vita Mott, all the cowboys you’ll ever need, Larry McMurtry.” Streets of Laredo inscribed on the title page: “For Roswitha Mott, The end of what became a tetralogy, My best, Larry McMutrty.” Dead Man’s Walk inscribed on the title page: “For Roswitha Mott, The beginning of the story—youth & adventure, Larry McMurtry.” Comanche Moon inscribed on the front free endpaper: “To Veta, Not the Last of the Mohicans but the last of the Lonesome Doves, Larry McMurtry.” When writing the now-classic modern Western for which he won the Pulitzer Prize, McMurtry “reached back to the stories he had heard of that vanished era when cattle were driven from his native Texas to railheads in Missouri and Kansas. ‘It grew out of my sense of having heard my uncles talk about the extraordinary days when the range was open… In my boyhood I could talk to men who touched this experience and knew it… I wanted to see if I could make that real” (New York Times, contemporary interview). “McMurtry shows… a quest misplaced in history, in a landscape that is bare of buffalo but still mythic… This is a masterly novel” (Kirkus). Notably adapted for television in 1989, one of the last major network primetime miniseries. Recipient Roswitha (“Veta”) Mott is a member of the family that has run the antiquarian book business Howard S. Mott since 1936. McMurtry’s well-known engagement with the rare book trade began in his twenties as a book scout, and he ran his own book store, Booked Up, for over 40 years. Spine of Streets of Laredo dust jacket mildly sunned. A fine and desirable inscribed set.
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