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Slight spine lean; sunned to spine and board edges, light foxing to prelims; price[1]clipped dust jacket a bit toned, creased, and chipped, with some loss to spine panel, small dampstain to rear panel along top edge. Still, very good. LMM-182. Robert M. Coates. Yesterday's Burdens. New York: The Macaulay Company, 1933. First edition. Octavo. 256pp. Publisher's light purple cloth with blue lettering to spine and front cover, original dust jacket. From the collection of Larry McMurtry, at his home in Archer City, Texas. His book, with personal brand-mark bookplate. .

Gently rubbed to extremities, toning especially to end papers, previous owner's label pasted to title page (not affecting titles), dust jacket chipped with small areas of loss not affecting titles, creased, slightly soiled, marked in ink to front "Oct 5th", else fine. JBS-119. Jack Black. Robert Herrick, foreword. You Can't Win. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1926. First edition. Twelvemo. 394pp. Publisher's red cloth hardcover boards, stamped in gilt to spine, blind stamped frames to front, original unclipped dust jacket showing retail price of $2.00. This scarce memoir of criminal life by hobo and burglar Jack Black was an early influence on the Beat Generation writers and was known to be a particular favorite of William S. Burroughs, who wrote the introduction to the later reprint edition. .

Extremities gently rubbed and bumped; minor interior toning; dust jacket lightly toned, chipped, and torn. Very good. AYW-229. William Goldman. Your Turn to Curtsy My Turn to Bow. New York: Doubleday & Company, 1958. First edition. Octavo. 154pp. Publisher's green pictorial cloth, stamped in red to spine and front cover, original unclipped dust jacket listing a retail price of $2.95. From the library of Oscar-Winning screenwriter and author William Goldman (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid / The Princess Bride / Marathon Man). His personal copy, with official ink-stamp from his estate. .