Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West [Inscribed]

by McCarthy, Cormac. [Ex-libris: Nicholas Potter, bookseller]

$35,000 · Offered by Biblio

First edition · Signed · In dust jacket

New York: Random House, 1985. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Inscribed by Cormac McCarthy in black ink on the half-title page to Santa Fe bookseller, Nicholas Potter: "For Nicholas Potter | With all best wishes | from your friend | Cormac McCarthy." 337 pp. Octavo [21.5 cm]. Publisher's red cloth and red paper-covered boards, lettering stamped in gilt with ruling in metallic red. Maroon dust jacket designed by Richard Adelson with red typography and Salvador Dalì's "The Phantom Cart" on the front. Photograph of the author by Mark Morrow on the back. First edition clearly stated on the copyright page. Dust jacket with "$17.95" price intact at top-front flap and "3/85" code at the bottom of the rear flap. Housed in a custom slipcase by Robert Wang of Denver, mirroring the dust jacket design. A Near Fine copy, with only a few light spots of surface soil at the edges of the text block, which is otherwise clean, solid, and square. The dust jacket is also Near Fine, with only very light surface rubbing, some minor wear near the folds, and just a hint of toning at the top edge. A bright, attractive copy with an intimate association. A significant association copy, warmly inscribed by the notoriously reclusive author to his long-time friend, the late Santa Fe bookseller Nicholas Potter. Throughout a friendship spanning forty years, Potter's bookstore served as a frequent destination for McCarthy, where the two shared a rapport rooted in their mutual ap

• Publisher: Random House
• Year: 1985
• Edition: First Edition
• Printing: first
• Binding: hardcover

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