Larry McMurtry page

The Last Picture Show
All My Friends Are Going To Be Strangers

Basic bibliography of main publications:
(S&S = Simon & Schuster)

Author born 1936

1961 - Horseman, Pass By. Harper. NY. app. 5000 cc. Filmed as "Hud", starring Paul Newman.
1963 - Leaving Cheyenne. Harper & Row. Originally priced at $4.50, it was changed to $4.95 on the lower front dust flap.
1966 - The Last Picture Show. Dial Press. The 1971 Peter Bogdanovich movie starred Cybill Shepherd, Jeff Bridges, Timothy Bottoms and won Academy Awards for Supporting Actors Cloris Leachman and Ben Johnson.
1968 - In A Narrow Grave. Encino Press. Austin, Tx. First printing is very rare with "skycrappers" instead of "skyscrappers" on page 105. Second printing has a "B" on the copyright page, tan cloth boards, tan parchment-like end papers, the 3rd printing has a "C" on the cp, tan paper boards and flat tan end papers. There is a 1968 signed Limited Edition of 250 copies with suede spine, in a slipcase.
1970 - Moving On. Simon & Schuster.
1972 - All My Friends Are Going To be Strangers. Simon & Schuster. This was the first book of his I read and it hooked me on both McMurtry and book collecting.
1974 - It's Always We Rambled, (essays). Hallman Publ. Signed, 300 numbered copies. No dustjacket, tan paper boards, red lettering.
1975 - Terms Of Endeament. Simon & Schuster. app. 16,500 copies.
1978 - Somebody's Darling. Simon & Schuster
1982 - Cadillac Jack. S&S. Also 250 signed copies in slipcase
1983 - Desert Rose. S&S. Also 250 signed copies in slipcase
1985 - Lonesome Dove. S&S. 1986 Pulitzer Prize winner
1987 - Texasville. S&S
1987 - Film Flam. S&S.
1988 - Anything For Billy. S&S
1989 - Some Can Whistle. S&S
1990 - Buffalo Girls. S&S
1990 - Growing Up Western, recollections by Dee Brown, A.B. Guthrie jr...(and others)  edited by Clarus Backes, introduction by Larry Mcmurtry, Knopf.
1992 - The Evening Star. S&S
1993 - Streets of Laredo S&S
1994 - Pretty Boy Floyd, with Diana Ossana S&S
1995 - Dead Man's Walk  S&S
1995 - The Late Child  S&S
1997 - Comanche Moon  S&S
1997 - Crazy Horse, Viking
1997 - Zeke and Ned S&S
1999 - Duane's Depressed  S&S
1999 - Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen  S&S
2000 - Still Wild, a Collection of Western Stories, S&S
2000 - Roads, S&S
2001 - Boone's Lick, S&S
2001 - Paradise, S&S
2001 - Sacagawea's Nickname: Eassys on the American West, S&S
2002 - Indian Nations, Pictures of American Indian Reservations in the Western United States, by Danny Lyon with foreward by Larry McMurtry, Twin Palms Publishers
2002 - Sin Killer, The Berrybender Narratives, Book 1, S&S. Also released in a signed Limited edition.
2003 - The Wandering Hill, The Berrybender Narratives, Book 2, S&S. Also released in a signed Limited edition.
2003 - By Sorrow's River, The Berrybender Narratives, Book 3, S&S.  Also released in a signed Limited edition.
2004 - Folly and Glory, The Berrybender Narratives, Book 4, S&S. Also released in a signed Limited edition.
2004 - Loop Group, S&S. Also released in a signed Limited edition.
2005 - The Colonel and Little Missie,  Buffalo Bill, Annie Oakley and the Beginnings of Superstardom in America, S&S. Also released in a signed Limited edition.
2005 - Oh What a Slaughter, Massacres in the American West 1846-1890 S&S. Also released in a signed Limited edition.
2005 - Brokeback Mountain - Oscar winning screenplay by Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana, from a short story by E. Annie Proulx.
2006 - Telegraph Days, S&S. Also released in a signed Limited edition.
2007 - When the Light Goes, S&S. Sequel to Duane's Depressed.  Also released in a signed Limited edition.
 

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