Blood Meridian or The Evening Redness in the West
New York: Random House [1985], 1985. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [11], 3-337, [2] pp. Quarter red cloth over red paper boards, gold lettering and two red rules on the spine. Illustrated title page. Price of $17.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. McCarthy's classic, gruesome tale of American westward expansion in the middle of the nineteenth century. Literary critic Harold Bloom regarded Cormac McCarthy as one of the greatest American novelists of his generation. This novel made Time Magazine's top 100 list of the greatest English-language novels published between 1925 and 2005. A lovely example. Near Fine / Near Fine. Item #000013956
Mild, sporadic foxing to the textblock; a tiny repair (3/4 cm wide) to the jacket's spine panel.
Price: $6,500.00