The Big Sky by A. B. Guthrie
About this Item: William Sloane Associates, NY, 1947. Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Trade Edition; First Printing. Red cloth over boards with white title and author on spine. Original first issue was a limited signed edition of 500 copies. Spine ends mildly softened, but interior pages are tight, sound, and square. The DJ in mylar has a trace of edgewear and is neatly taped along the interior spine. 386 pages.
The first of six novels in Guthrie's Western sequence, The Big Sky deals with the development of Montana from 1830 through the cattle empire of the 1880s to the near present. The first three books in the six story sequence - The Big Sky, The Way West, and Fair Land, Fair Land are in themselves a complete trilogy, starting in the 1830s and ending in the offers 1870s. Basis for the 1952 Howard Hawks film, scripted by Dudley Nichols, starring Kirk Douglas as a frontier fur trapper coming to the aid of scene-stealer Arthur Hunnicutt. This book's sequel, "The Way West" won the 1950 Pulitzer Price.
Flap price shown as $3.50. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.
Product code: The Big Sky offers by A. B. Guthrie First Edition