Blood Meridian or The Evening Redness in the West
$6,000 · Offered by Biblio
First edition
New York: Random House, 1985. First edition, first printing. Publisher's quarter red cloth over red boards, spine titled in gilt, in Richard Adelson dust jacket ($17.95). Some faint mottling to cloth, else near fine, in fine dust jacket, with short tear rear panel, in mylar cover. 337, [5, blank] pp. 8.5" x 5.75" THE PHILOSOPHICAL TRAGEDY OF THE WEST While received with mixed reviews, a reportedly humble print run, and an even smaller sales number, Blood Meridian is now among the canon of post-war 20th century literature and has definitively dethroned the classic western. From the romanticization of the West as seen in such previous classics as Wister's The Virginian and Grey's Riders of the Purple Sage, McCarthy reimagines the genre as philosophical tragedy rather than a frontier romance. Brutally raw and violent, mythically marred and dark, Blood Meridian follows the nameless "Kid" into the desert wastes of the US-Mexico frontier, where Judge Holden--one of the most disturbing villains in modern literature, presides over a searing band of scalp hunters. Blood Meridian remains a touchstone in the ongoing reinterpretation of America's violent past and represents McCarthy's artistic pinnacle that has solidified his place among the most important writers of the twentieth century. A near blemishless copy, without the often seen remainder mark.
- Publisher: Random House
- Year: 1985
- Edition: First Edition
- Binding: unknown
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