Blood Meridian, or The Evening Redness in the West.
$22,500 · Offered by Biblio
First edition · Signed
New York: Random House, 1985. First edition of the author's classic fifth novel. Octavo, original half red cloth. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For Liz with love Cormac." The recipient was a close friend of the McCarthy's. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Richard Adelson. Jacket painting by Salvador Dali. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box by the Harcourt Bindery. Blood Meridian seems to me the authentic American apocalyptic novel, more relevant even in 2000 than it was fifteen years ago. The fulfilled renown of Moby-Dick and of As I Lay Dying is augmented by Blood Meridian, since Cormac McCarthy is the worthy disciple both of Melville and of Faulkner. I venture that no other living American novelist, not even Pynchon, has given us a book as strong and memorable as Blood Meridian (Harold Bloom). McCarthy can only be compared with our greatest writers, with Melville and Faulkner, and this is his masterpiece (Michael Herr).
- Publisher: Random House
- Year: 1985
- Edition: First Edition
- Binding: hardcover
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