True Grit
by Portis, Charles
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good/Very good
- Seller
-
Portland, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. A classic comic Western, memorably filmed on two occassions, once starring John Wayne and Glenn Campbell and then again in 2010, with Matt Damon and Kurt Russell, directed by the Coen Brothers.
215 pages. First edition (first printing, stated). A very good, spine faded copy in a very good, apparently married jacket with a shallow chip at the top of the spine. The jacket may have been slightly trimmed to remove chipping.
215 pages. First edition (first printing, stated). A very good, spine faded copy in a very good, apparently married jacket with a shallow chip at the top of the spine. The jacket may have been slightly trimmed to remove chipping.
Synopsis
True Grit tells the tale of fourteen-year-old Mattie Ross from Dardanelle, Arkansas, and how she sets out to avenge his death at the hands of a no-good outlaw. She manages to illicit the help of hard-drinking Marshal Rooster Cogburn in her quest.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Downtown Brown Books, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 363253
- Title
- True Grit
- Author
- Portis, Charles
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good
- Jacket Condition
- Very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1968
- Bookseller catalogs
- FICTION;
Terms of Sale
Downtown Brown Books, ABAA
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About the Seller
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Portland, Oregon
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- First Edition
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