Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy
First edition, first printing of McCarthy's magnum opus and one of the greatest American novels of all time.
New York: Random House, 1985. Publisher's original quarter crimson cloth over paper boards, spine titled in gilt, original dust jacket designed by Richard Adelson; pp. (ix), 337. A very good copy in a very good, unclipped dust jacket. Binding remains tight and sturdy with just a hint of a lean, minimal shelfwear to boards, traces of faint soiling to top edge of text block and foredge. Remainder mark to bottom edge of text block. Internally clean. Jacket shows light shelfwear to extremities with a few tiny chips, tears and faint wrinkles. Presents very well in archival mylar.