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$13,359 · Offered by Biblio
First edition
New York: Random House,, 1979. His early roman à clef, inscribed First edition, inscribed by the author on the half-title, "For John & Ann, Best wishes, Cormac McCarthy". The recipients were the American journalist John Egerton (1935-2013), who wrote extensively on Southern culture, and his wife Ann Bleidt. Based on the author's experience growing up in Tennessee, the novel took McCarthy 20 years to write. It was well-received on publication, the Times Literary Supplement comparing McCarthy to William Faulkner and Flannery O'Connor, and the New York Times reviewing the novel as "a book with rude, startling power... like a good, long scream in the ear". McCarthy won the MacArthur Fellowship shortly after publication. Octavo. Original black quarter cloth, spine lettered in gilt, yellow paper-covered boards, author's initials to front cover in gilt. With dust jacket. Lightly rubbed, slight crease to spine; jacket price-clipped, spine slightly faded, small faint scratches to front panel, nicks and creases to extremities: a very good copy in very good jacket.
- Year: 1979
- Edition: First Edition
- Binding: hardcover
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