Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West (First Printing & NOT Remaindered)

McCarthy, Cormac

ISBN 10: 039454482X / ISBN 13: 9780394544823

Published by Random House Inc, New York, NY, 1985

About this Item

Apparently unread book is tight & square with previous owners name neatly printed in ink on the top of the ffep. It is a Stated "First Edition" with the Random House complete number line "2 4 6 8 9 7 5 3" on the copyright page as required to be a True Random House First Edition / First printing. There is slight areas of foxing on the top page block edge. The gold printing on the spine of the book is blurred and was obviously a printing error. There is NO remainder mark, which is uncommon for this book. Most copies were sent back to the publisher and remaindered. There were only 5000 First Printings The mylar protected DJ is price-intact . ($17.95) and is in lovely condition.

Seller Inventory # 001596

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West (First Printing & NOT Remaindered)
• Publisher: Random House Inc, New York, NY
• Publication Date: 1985
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 039454482X
• ISBN 13: 9780394544823
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Salvador Dali (Dust Jcket Art)
• Edition: First Edition / First Printing
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

About this title

Synopsis

Based on incidents that took place in the southwestern United States and Mexico around 1850, this novel chronicles the crimes of a band of desperados, with a particular focus on one, "the kid," a boy of fourteen

Review

McCarthy distances us not only from the historical past, not only from our cowboy-and-Indian images of it, but also revisionist theories that make white men the villains and Indians the victims. All men are unremittingly bloodthirsty here, poised at a peak of violence, the "meridian" from which their civilization will quickly fall. (New York Times Book Review)

Blood Meridian is his masterpiece . . . An astonishing sanguinary epic dealing with the Indian wars of the 1840s in West Texas and Mexico . . . Unlike anything I have ever read in recent years, an extraordinary, breathtaking achievement. (John Banville Observer)

McCarthy's achievement is to establish a new mythology which is as potent and vivid as that of the movies, yet one which has absolutely the opposite effect . . . He is a great writer. (Independent)

A bloody and starkly beautiful tale (Stephen Amidon Sunday Times)

Possibly the greatest American novel of the past 25 years. (Aleksandar Hemon, author of THE LAZARUS PROJECT and NOWHERE MAN)

Unlike anything I have read in recent years, an extraordinary, breathtaking achievement. (John Banville)