8vo. Half-title. Original drab cloth (short tear to spine end); in unrestored unclipped dust jacket (some spotting on verso, a few chips and creases). Provenance: Larry McMurtry (signature).

FIRST EDITION WITH SPILLANE'S SIGNATURE on a slip laid in. Spillane's second novel was adapted to film in 1957.

LARRY McMURTRY'S COPY. In his memoir The Treasure Hunter, McMurtry recalled picking up paperback editions of Spillane's books in Wichita Falls in his youth.  In The Last Picture Show, McMurtry writes that Spillane's I, the Jury was "a book the local drugstore could never keep in stock."