Butcher's Crossing

Author: Williams, John
Title: Butcher's Crossing
Publication: New York: Macmillan, 1960
Edition: First Edition

Description: Hardcover. Inscribed by Williams on the front endpaper. Near Fine in a Very Good jacket, clipped but still priced ($3.95), some soiling and rubbing throughout, toned at the spine, bumped at the edges. Red and grey buckram on the boards with silver gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound with toned pages, gift inscription on the rear endpaper, clean otherwise. Williams' second novel and the immediate predecessor of STONER. An anti-Western that follows "the metamorphosis of boy into man against the background of one of the last great adventures deep in the American grain." Argued by John Plotz, among other critics, as the book that blazed the trail for the likes of BLOOD MERIDIAN and LONESOME DOVE. Near Fine / Very Good.

Seller ID: 5373

Subject: Literature & Classics

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