Lonesome Dove

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1985. First edition, first printing. Publisher's half navy cloth with black paper boards, with the original dust jacket. Octavo. 843 pages. Minor edge-wear to dust jacket, and faint spotting to fore-edge text block. Overall a Very-Good example of this western classic. 

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, Larry McMurtry's western masterpiece had not only become a popular favorite amongst readers, but it also inspired writers across the globe with it masterful prose and memorable characters who feel real and honest. Only four years after Lonesome Dove was published it found life on the television screen and with that came 7 Emmy wins and 2 Golden Globe wins. Augustus McCrae and Captain Woodrow F. Call stayed with the hearts of Americans ever since they first found their voices in 1985 with this very copy.

This book is a true first/first as stated with the number line on the copyright page. It also features the well-known error on page 621 ("he had none nothing" vs "he had done nothing"), however that error was only changed during quite later printings (somewhere in the 20s) and it doesn't necessarily distinguish a first printing from a second, hence the number line being the best identifier.