

McCarthy, Cormac
Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West, 1985. New York, Random House.
“War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner.”
First edition, first printing of McCarthy’s brutal, unsentimental and beautiful portrayal of the Wild West, in the original dustjacket.
First edition, first printing of McCarthy’s brutal, unsentimental and beautiful portrayal of the Wild West, in the original dustjacket.
$ 6,000.00
8vo (208 mm x 135 mm). 5 ff., 337 pp, 2 [blanks]. Original red quarter-cloth, spine lettered in gilt and ruled in metallic red, red cloth binding, dust jacket with price of $17.95 on the front flap. Title page and facing page illustrated with map of New Mexico. Light foxing to edges, light wear to top edge of dustjacket, otherwise a fine copy in an unclipped jacket.
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