Outer Dark [Signed]

Name: Outer Dark [Signed]
Author: McCarthy, Cormac. [Ex-libris: Nicholas Potter, bookseller]

McCarthy, Cormac. [Ex-libris: Nicholas Potter, bookseller]

Published by Random House, New York, 1968

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Signed by Cormac McCarthy in black ink on the half-title page. 242 pp. Octavo [21 cm]. Publisher's turquoise cloth and grey paper-covered boards stamped in black, silver, blue. Publisher's black topstain. Black dust jacket with white, green, and orange typography, designed by Muriel Nasser. First printing statement on the copyright page. Dust jacket is price-clipped and has the "9/68" code at the front flap?s bottom-right. A Near Fine, unread copy, clean and square. The black topstain is lightly faded. The price-clipped dust jacket is Very Good, with just a tiny closed tear (measuring less than 1cm) at the bottom edge of the front panel, and one very small dark stain on the spine. A nice copy. Signed by the notoriously reclusive author. From the library of the late Santa Fe bookseller Nicholas Potter. Throughout a friendship spanning forty years, Potter?s bookstore served as a frequent destination for McCarthy, where the two shared a rapport rooted in their mutual appreciation of literature, art, music, and history. This volume represents a vital fragment of that connection. The first printing of Outer Dark consisted of a run of 5,000 copies, and was the only printing of the first edition of this work. The book was a commercial failure upon its release, selling less than 3,500 copies. Set in purgatorial, turn-of-the-century Appalachia, Outer Dark is McCarthy?s second novel, distilling his Southern Gothic style which he would continue to explore in his two subsequent novels, Child of God and Suttree. The narrative utilizes an archaic, rhythmic prose to deliver a wandering tale?a harrowing meditation on nihilism. Its publication cemented McCarthy as a singular, prophetic stylist, distinguished from many of his more experimental postmodernist contemporaries through a mastery of the macabre and the mythic.

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Title: Outer Dark [Signed]
Author: McCarthy, Cormac. [Ex-libris: Nicholas Potter, bookseller]
Publisher: Random House, New York
Publication year: 1968
Condition: Near Fine
Dust jacket: Very Good
Signed: Signed
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: First edition, first printing.
Seller catalogs: Literature, Modern First Editions & Modern Literature

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