Blood Meridian, 25th Anniversary edition
Random House/Modern Library, New York, 2010
First 25th Anniversary edition, so stated on front cover, first printing with a full number-line on copyright page. Hardcover, 21,8 x 14,7 cm, 351 numbered pages. Publisher’s beige paper covered and cloth boards lettered in brown on spine and with the Modern Library logo embossed on the front panel. First issue pictorial dust-jacket by Richard Adelson, based on the 1985 Random House first edition dust-jacket reproducing Salvador Dali’s painting “The Phantom Cart”. With an introduction by Harold Bloom.
CONDITION: unread, fine in a fine dustjacket.
COLLECTING TOPICS: fine copies are rather easy to find, in a price range from $50 to $ 100. Genuine signed or inscribed copies are apparently very scarce. An inscribed first printing was offered at $3,500 a few years ago. A later printing, signed, was listed at $1,800 on May 2023 and raised at $2,000 after McCarthy’s death. Both were offered by Raptis Rare Books. Strong provenances for the signatures were not provided though.
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