Bookseller’s small sticker to front pastedown; a very good copy; jacket price-clipped slightly marked and superficially rubbed, but overall very good.
McCoy (Horace) They shoot horses, don’t they?
£395
London, Arthur Barker, 1935.
First UK edition. 8vo. Original decorative cloth. Dust-jacket, price-clipped.
The first UK edition of McCoy’s disturbingly titled Great Depression era classic, adapted for film by Sydney Pollack in 1969.
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