CHILD OF GOD - INSCRIBED
$7,500 · Offered by Biblio
First edition · Signed
New York: Random House, 1973. First Edition. First Printing, one of 7,500 copies. Octavo (21.5cm); red paper-covered boards and navy blue cloth backstrip, with titles stamped in gilt on spine and authors initials blind-stamped on front cover; dustjacket; [vi],[2],3-197,[5]pp. Inscribed by the author in an early hand on the title page: "For Ernest Cunningham / All best wishes / Cormac McCarthy." Two small, very faint lines of offsetting on front pastedown, else a fresh, Fine copy. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $5.95), with a 1cm closed tear at base of spine panel; very Near Fine, absent both the usual heavy surface wear and fading to the sensitive red titling on spine. Housed in a custom felt-lined half-morocco clamshell case. McCarthy's third novel, the story of murderer and necrophile Lester Ballard an outcast from his small Appalachian community, living among the decomposing bodies of his victims in the mountains and in an underground cave. The book was not a commercial success for Random House; it sold just 2,415 copies of its only printing prior to being remaindered. Basis for James Franco's 2013 film, starring Scott Haze and Tim Blake Nelson.
- Publisher: Random House
- Year: 1973
- Edition: First Edition
- Printing: first
- Binding: unknown
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