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Broadside Sheet printed on one side, typically for public display, usually larger than folio size (a folio being a broadside-size sheet printed on both sides and folded once, to make four pages).

Book-Plate Label, generally affixed to the front pastedown, identifying a book’s owner.

Of particular value to collectors as evidence of a very early form of the book. “Original boards” refers to cardboard-like front and back boards, from about 1700 to 1840, used as temporary protection for books before their purchasers would have them bound.

Boards Hard front and rear covers of a bound book which are covered in cloth, leather or paper.

Association Copy copy that belonged to someone connected with the author or the contents of a book.

Armorial Used to describe a binding bearing the coat of arms of the original owner, or with bookplates incorporating the owner’s arms.

Although the name contains the word “tint”, this is a black-and-white printing process aquatint plates can often be hand colored, however. By changing the areas of the plate that are exposed and the length of time the plate is submerged in the acid bath, the engraver can obtain fine and varying shades of gray that closely resemble watercolor washes.

Aquatint Copperplate process by which the plate is “bitten” by exposure to acid.

Booked Up closed in the mid-'90s and McMurtry opened his famous bookstore in Archer City, Texas.īook fine, dust jacket near-fine with only slight wear to extremities and mild toning to spine. The inscribee, Brian Curtiss, was McMurtry's friend as well as a shopkeeper who worked near Larry McMurtry's Georgetown bookstore "Booked Up" at 31st and M Street. Dust jacket slightly short, but conforming to all first edition points. In The Last Picture Show, "one of Larry McMurtry's most powerful, memorable novels," he introduced characters who would return in his later novels Texasville and Duane's Depressed ( Boston Globe). $3000.įirst edition of McMurtry's popular third novel, warmly inscribed: "For Brian Curtiss-whose delicacy in regard to the feelings of harassed - novelists is both admirable and rare-with my Best Wishes-Larry McMurtry. Octavo, original tan cloth, original dust jacket. "BOTH ADMIRABLE AND RARE": FIRST EDITION OF THE LAST PICTURE SHOW, WARMLY INSCRIBED BY LARRY MCMURTRY TO A FRIEND WHO WORKED IN A SHOP NEAR MCMURTRY'S DC BOOKSTORE