Outer Dark.

by McCarthy, Cormac

$9,500 · Offered by Biblio

First edition · Signed

New York: Random House, 1968. First edition of the author's second novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Cormac McCarthy on the front free endpaper. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Muriel Nasser. A superior example. Outer Dark is a novel at once mythic and starkly evocative, set in an unspecified place in Appalachia sometime around the turn of the century. A woman bears her brother s child, a boy; the brother leaves the baby in the woods and tells her he died of natural causes. Discovering her brother s lie, she sets forth alone to find her son. Both brother and sister wander separately through a countryside being scourged by three terrifying and elusive strangers, headlong toward an eerie, apocalyptic resolution. A profound parable that ultimately speaks to any society in any time (Time).

• Publisher: Random House
• Year: 1968
• Edition: First Edition
• Binding: hardcover

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