Anything for Billy

Anything for Billy by Larry McMurtry. Published by Simon & Schuster, New York, NY, 1988. 1st Edition 4th Printing. Hardbound, Paper DJ. Size 8vo (up to 9-1/2'' tall). Condition: Nr Fine in Good DJ. Gift dedication in ink inside front cover. Discarded library book, mug ring on DJ front, book not affected. 382 Pgs. ISBN 0671642685. LCCN 88-22732. Narrated by dime novelist Ben Sippy, this novel concerns Billy the Kid. By sympathizing with Ben Sippy, readers understand the commercial mythologizing of the Old West that dime novelists did, and how the myths that perpetuated from those novels both sustain and entrap the people who live in the West even today. Description text copyright 2007 BooksForComfort. Item ID 14818.