Blood Meridian.
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First edition
New York: Random House,, 1985. Inscribed to a fellow scholar of the Old West First edition, first printing, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "for Al Lowman, all best wishes, Cormac McCarthy". Lowman was a respected Texas historian who spent his life studying and sharing stories of the American Southwest, the setting for McCarthy's most celebrated works, including No Country for Old Men, All the Pretty Horses, and his brutal masterpiece and quintessential Old West novel, Blood Meridian. McCarthy grew up in Tennessee and Appalachia, where many of his early works are set. His first trip to Texas in 1970 inspired him to write Blood Meridian, and in 1974 he moved to El Paso to immerse himself in the history and geography of the region. The subsequent work was "as close to history as novels generally get, drawn in sometimes verbatim tones from memoirs, chronicles, eyewitness testimony" (Mitchell). McCarthy was a notoriously reclusive author, but it is likely he and Lowman met during the course of McCarthy's research. Lowman (1935-2013) curated the special exhibits and catalogues at the Institute of Texan Cultures in San Antonio and served as president of the Texas State Historical Association, the Texas Folklore Society, and the Book Club of Texas. He was a member of the Grolier Club and the Philosophical Society of Texas, and he published a number of book, including Printing Arts in Texas (1975), "the best history of fine printing in Texas" (Jenkins), and This B
- Year: 1985
- Edition: First Edition
- Printing: first
- Binding: hardcover
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