BLOOD MERIDIAN, OR THE EVENING REDNESS IN THE WEST - REVIEW COPY
London: Picador, 1989. First U.K. Edition. Item #8123
First Impression, a review copy, with the publisher's printed slip laid in. Octavo (22.25cm); red paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in white on spine; dustjacket; [viii],[2],3-337,[7]pp. Subtle tanning to the text edges, else very Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced £11.95), showing some trivial external wear, else very Near Fine.
McCarthy's fifth novel and undisputed masterpiece, a sweeping, terrible vision of the American west in the wake of the Civil War. In a 2006 survey by the New York Times, Blood Meridian was voted the runner-up for the best work of American fiction published in the last 25 years.
Price: $3,500.00