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New York: B.W. Huebsch, 1916. Hardcover. Near Fine. First American edition. Beige cloth stamped in black. Slight foxing on the spine, else near fine lacking the rare dust jacket. Author Larry McMurtry's copy, with his small book label, and early neat ink ownership signature: "Larry & Jo McMurtry. San Francisco. 1960", when McMurtry was 24, and a year or two before his first book was published. During that time McMurtry was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at the Stanford University Creative Writing Center along with Ken Kesey, Wendell Berry, Robert Stone, Tillie Olson, Ernest Gaines, and several other notables. This is one of the few of McMurtry's books we've seen that acknowledges his relatively shortlived first marriage (he and Jo Scott were married in 1959 and separated in 1964). Interestingly, what many consider his greatest novel, *The Last Picture Show*, a story of irretrievable loss and tarnished romance, was written in just three weeks in the Summer of 1964, presumably when…