BLOOD MERIDIAN, OR THE EVENING REDNESS IN THE WEST - UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY
London: Picador, 1989. First U.K. Edition. Item #8121
First Impression. Octavo (20.5cm); publisher's original red-orange printed card wrappers; [viii],[2],3-337,[3]pp. Hint of sunning to spine, light wear to extremities, with some very faint finger-soil to spine and rear wrapper; contents clean; Very Good+ to Near Fine.
The uncorrected proof copies of Blood Meridian constitute the novel's first appearance in print in the UK. Picador's one and only printing of 3,000 copies was somewhat smaller than the 5,000 copy printing done by Random House in 1985. The number of American proofs produced was small, and we suspect proofs for its UK counterpart were printed in still smaller numbers. Surviving copies are desirable and elusive.
Price: $6,500.00