SPILLANE, Mickey. My Gun is Quick. NY, 1950. FIRST EDITION WITH SPILLANE'S SIGNATURE on a slip laid in. LARRY McMURTRY'S COPY.
Sale 1023 - The Library of Jack Charles Davis, Sold to Support Charitable Institutions
May 3, 2022
9:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
Estimate
$600 -
$800
Sold for $375
Sold prices are inclusive of Buyer’s Premium
Lot Description
SPILLANE, Mickey (1918-2006). My Gun is Quick. New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, Inc., 1950.
8vo. Half-title. Original drab cloth (short tear to spine end); in unrestored unclipped dust jacket (some spotting on verso, a few chips and creases). Provenance: Larry McMurtry (signature).
FIRST EDITION WITH SPILLANE'S SIGNATURE on a slip laid in. Spillane's second novel was adapted to film in 1957.
LARRY McMURTRY'S COPY. In his memoir The Treasure Hunter, McMurtry recalled picking up paperback editions of Spillane's books in Wichita Falls in his youth. In The Last Picture Show, McMurtry writes that Spillane's I, the Jury was "a book the local drugstore could never keep in stock."
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