THE PASSENGER BOX SET: THE PASSENGER & STELLA MARIS - LIMITED EDITION, SIGNED
London: Picador, 2022. First U.K. Edition. Item #8097
Limited Issue, one of 250 copies specially bound and signed by the author, each volume numbered on verso of half-title page, with a signed tipped-in leaf following, this being set no.59. Two octavo volumes (24.25cm); dark orange and tuquoise cloth, with titling and pictorial elements stamped in black on spines and covers; pictorial endpapers; publisher's two-part cloth-covered box, with titles stamped in glossy black on base and lid; publisher's original two-part stiff saddle-stapled cardboard box, with titling and decorations stamped in glossy black on lid; [vi],[6],7-383,[13]; [iv],[6],7-189,[1]pp. Fine in a Fine box; the outer cardboard enclosure is gently tapped at one upper corner, else very Near Fine.
An attractively finished set of McCarthy's final two novels. The UK signed limited preceded the American release of the signed Passenger Box Set by 3 days. Of the 250 copies, 150 were allocated for sale to Waterstones Plus Members, with the remaining 100 sets distributed by Picador agents to (chiefly) independent bookshops.
Price: $2,500.00