Buy this book on-line CHARLES PORTIS : True Grit. A novelJonathan Cape, London, 1969
First UK Edition (first printing), issued the year after the considerably more common US edition. 8vo. 215pp. Brown cloth lettered and ruled in gold at the spine. Top edge spotted and with a little fading to the publisher's pink top edge stain. A small area of offsetting from a now absent dealer plate to the base of the front pastedown. A critical note boldly inked to the title page by a somewhat disgruntled contemporary former owner ("Very good but doesn't know the language of the west"), prevents this from being graded higher, yet it remains an extremely crisp and bright copy in non-price-clipped pictorial dust wrapper with a striking design by Tom Adams which is distinctly superior to the US wrapper design. The wrapper is a little rubbed at the spine ends and corner tips, and with a little light chafing, and a touch of wear to the natural folds. The author's second novel, somewhat revised from its original serialisation in 'The Saturday Evening Post', and the basis for two pretty decent film adaptations.. Book. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hardcover. Jacket: Very Good Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of CHARLES PORTIS : True Grit. A novel. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including out-of-print books, libri rari, livres illustrées, out of print books and incunabula. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |