Books with author Charles Portis

True Grit, Charles Portis, Simon & Schuster, 1968, 3rd printing, 215 pages. Description: Blue-gray boards with silver and orange lettering to spine only, tan endpapers. Dust jacket; illustrated front panel with white and black lettering, yellow spine with black lettering, back panel is publisher's slug for this book followed by five other slugs ending with A. C. Greene's. Both inside flaps contain only the publisher's synopsis of this book. Not price clipped. Condition: Book; Very good. Bright and clean boards free of dings or rubs, but the spine shows noticeable signs of rain damage and some hand smudges. Silver lettering and orange stars and publisher's name very bright and readable, else near fine example without any writing or other marks. Dust jacket; near fine. Bright and clean, free of any marks, one closed tear on the bottom edge of the front panel that does not extend into the illustration, lower front point is rubbed and there is a pinhole-size hole along the top of the front flap, else fine. Jacket now protected in Brodart.

There is no knowing what lies in a man's heart. On a trip to buy ponies, Frank Ross is killed by one of his own workers. Tom Chaney shoots him down in the street for a horse, $150 cash, and two Californian gold pieces. Ross's unusually mature and single-minded fourteen-year-old daughter Mattie travels to claim his body, and finds that the authorities are doing nothing to find Chaney. Then she hears of Rooster - a man, she's told, who has grit - and convinces him to join her in a quest into dark, dangerous Indian territory to hunt Chaney down and avenge her father's murder.