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McCarthy, Cormac. BLOOD MERIDIAN: Or The Evening Redness in the West. Random House, New York, 1985.

Price: US$2500.00 + shipping

Description: First printing of McCarthy's grim epic Western. The jewel of McCarthy's oeuvre, and one of few resoundingly great novels to have so far escaped the peril of film adaptation-most recently slipping nimbly from the grasping hands of James Franco-as its greatness rests in large part on its unadaptable prose. BLOOD MERIDIAN is a book from which those who love it best can recite unprompted; even those who love it somewhat less have the last paragraph by heart. McCarthy's great and terrible Judge Holden is one of a select few twentieth-century characters to achieve immortality without inspiring ten thousand easy imitations: no warmed-over archetype, but a whole new monster. A landmark in US literature. 8.25'' x 5.5''. Original quarter red cloth with red boards, gilt-lettered spine. In original unclipped ($17.95) dust jacket, designed by Richard Adelson. [8], 337, [1] pages. Large chip to top of jacket spine and front panel with matching fading to book. Small loss to top of spine cloth. Else a clean, bright, sharp, and sound example. Very good plus in very good jacket.

Seller: Type Punch Matrix, Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.

McCarthy, Cormac. Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West. Random House, 1985.

Price: US$3000.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Light soiling, excellent corners. Interior is clean and unmarked in excellent condition. First edition. First printing, with correct number line. 337 pages.

Seller: Yes Books, portland, ME, U.S.A.

Cormac McCarthy. Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West. Random House Publishing, 1985.

Price: US$3495.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Good++ in a Good+ dust jacket; Hardcover; Stated First Edition; Dust jacket is lightly shelfworn and egdeworn with a few very small edge-tears and a small tear in the jacket at the lower edge of the spine, and has minor creasing to the corners inside of the jacket flaps, but is overall clean and intact, and has not been price-clipped (Now fitted with a new, Brodart jacket protector); Clean boards with just minor fading and edgewear; Very light foxing to the textblock edges with a red pen remainder mark to the bottom edge near the spine; Very light foxing to the endpapers, otherwise the endpapers and all text pages are clean and unmarked; The binding is excellent with a straight spine; This book will be shipped in a sturdy cardboard box with foam padding; Medium Format (8.5" - 9.75" tall); 1.3 lbs; Dark red dust jacket with title in red lettering; 1985, Random House Publishing; 327 pages; "Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West," by Cormac McCarthy.

Seller: Salish Sea Books, Bellingham, WA, U.S.A.

McCarthy, Cormac. Blood Meridian. Random House, New York, 1985.

Price: US$4000.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's crimson cloth quarter cloth over red paper covered boards, spine lettered in gilt, ruled in red. Very Good with lean to spine, light soiling to textblock edge and remainder mark to top edge. Bookstore rubber stamp blacked out in marker on front free endpaper, with associated offsetting to jacket flap. In a Very Good unclipped dust jacket with bleeding from the red cloth onto the blindside, light rubbing and light edge wear.

Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.

McCarthy, Cormac. Blood Meridian Or The Evening Redness in the West. Random House, New York, 1985.

Price: US$4000.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: First Edition/First Printing. Certain events which took place in the southwestern United States and northern Mexico in 1849 and 1850 provide the framework of the author's fifth book. Blood Meridian can thus be called a historical novel, but it will never be referred to as a Romance of the Old West. Upper board corners lightly bumped. Dust jacket has a few small tears. No remainder mark.

Seller: Mike Murray - Bookseller LLC, East Windsor, NJ, U.S.A.

McCarthy, Cormac. Blood Meridian. Random House, New York, 1985.

Price: US$4200.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's crimson cloth quarter cloth over red paper covered boards, spine lettered in gilt, ruled in red. Near Fine with remainder mark to top of textblock edge, in a NearFine unclipped dust jacket with light rubbing, light wear to the extremities and a small scuff to the spine panel.

Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.

McCarthy, Cormac. Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West. Random House Inc, New York, 1985.

Price: US$4250.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Near fine in a near fine unclipped dust jacket. Remainder mark on top edge. Jacket with minute shelf, except for the top rear corner with has a small chip.

Seller: James Graham, Bookseller, ABAA, Palm Desert, CA, U.S.A.

McCarthy, Cormac. Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West (First Printing & NOT Remaindered). Random House Inc, New York, NY, 1985.

Price: US$4395.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: 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: Herrick Books, Austin, MN, U.S.A.

McCarthy, Cormac. Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West. Random House, 1985.

Price: US$4500.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition, First Printing with the words First Edition and correct number line printed on the copyright page. Excellent, unread copy of McCarthy s masterpiece, the fifth novel by the unrivaled Pulitzer Prize-winning author. The book block has 2 minor issues: on interior front pastedown, in lower right side is some scuffing (1 x ½ ); and a fairly light water stain(?) on the back board (see photo). Otherwise, the interior is like new, with no writing or marks, and the corners are square, the binding is tight and boards are crisp. No remainder mark. The two bottom corners of the jacket are chipped (see photo) and a very tiny tear at top of front jacket, and lastly, a 2 almost imperceptible crease at the right bottom of the front flap. Otherwise, the jacket is fine with vibrant colors. The corners of the jacket are perfectly square. Blood Meridian (1985) was among Time Magazine's poll of 100 best English-language books published between 1925 and 2005

Seller: Devoted toBooks, Pleasant Hill, CA, U.S.A.

McCarthy, Cormac. Blood Meridian or The Evening Redness in the West. Random House, New York, 1985.

Price: US$4500.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: First Edition, First Printing with the words First Edition and correct number line printed on the copyright page. This ORIGINAL First Issue dustjacket is vibrant in color with slight wear to the spine and edges. The book is in excellent condition with light wear to the boards. The binding is tight with a hint of wear to the edges. The pages are clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book with minor discoloration to page edges. A lovely copy without the publisher's remainder mark.

Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.

Cormac McCarthy. Blood Meridian. Random House, 1985.

Price: US$5000.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: First edition, first printing of McCarthy's magnum opus and one of the greatest American novels of all time. An excellent copy with no remainder mark, rarely found in this condition. New York: Random House, 1985. Publisher's original quarter crimson cloth over paper boards, spine titled in gilt, original dust jacket designed by Richard Adelson; pp. (ix), 337. A near fine copy in a near fine, unclipped dust jacket. Binding remains tight, sturdy and square. Nearly nonexistent wear to boards, some of the spine gilt a touch dulled, traces of very faint foxing to bottom edge of text block and scattered internally, a touch of waviness to the edges of the first few pages. The dust jacket remains in remarkably nice condition, with what appears to be a small, very faint abrasian or restoration to the spine. A very nice copy, protected in archival mylar.

Seller: Kevin Sell, The Rare Book Sleuth, IOBA, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.

Cormac McCarthy. Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West. Random House Publishing, 1985.

Price: US$5250.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Very Good++ in a Very Good++ dust jacket; Hardcover; Dust jacket is clean and glossy with no scuffs or tears, and has not been price-clipped (Now fitted with a new, Brodart jacket protector); Very light wear to the boards with "straight" edge-corners; All three textblock sides are unblemished; One tiny and faint spot-mark to the first endpaper, otherwise the endpapers and all text pages are clean and unmarked; The binding is tight with a straight spine; This book will be shipped in a sturdy cardboard box with foam padding; Medium Format (8.5" - 9.75" tall); 1.3 lbs; Dark red dust jacket with title in red lettering; 1985, Random House Publishing; 327 pages; "Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West," by Cormac McCarthy.

Seller: Salish Sea Books, Bellingham, WA, U.S.A.

McCARTHY, Cormac.. Blood Meridian. of The Evening Redness in the West.. New York Random House, 1985.

Price: US$5445.00 + shipping

Description: First edition, first impression; 8vo; publisher's quarter red cloth, red boards, titles to spine gilt, with the dust-jacket, a single, miniscule nick to the rear panel, a truly stunning copy and rare thus. A wonderful copy of the author's masterpiece from the library of the noted archivist, historian and collector of Western Americana, Gene M. Grassley with his discreet monogram blind stamp to the title-page.

Seller: Shapero Rare Books, London, United Kingdom

Cormac McCarthy. Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West. Random House February 1985, 1985.

Price: US$5500.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First printing. Red boards in red cloth back. Slight lean to spine, trivial edgewear and very light spotting on edges. Binding is unusually firm and tight; the copy is likely unread. Very clean internally. Jacket is bright, not clipped and has extremely faint chipping (no paper loss) along edges. Wrapped for preservation.

Seller: A Cappella Books, Inc., Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.

McCarthy, Cormac. Blood meridian, or, The evening redness in the West. Random House, New York, 1985.

Price: US$6000.12 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: F/NF+ in mylar. A 1st eidtion/1st printing in fine condition with full number line. There is only minor wear to jacket with a scrape on the back side (see photo). The jacket is not price clipped, the covers are clean and bright and the edges are sharp. No tears or creases. The binding is straight and tight. NO remainder mark, NOT ex. lib.

Seller: Cul de Sac Books, Clarkston, GA, U.S.A.

McCARTHY, Cormac.. Blood Meridian. Or the Evening Redness in the West.. New York: Random House, 1985, 1985.

Price: US$6497.73 + shipping

Description: First edition, first printing, of the author's masterpiece, a shockingly violent work widely proclaimed as one of the greatest American novels. This is an advance review copy, with the publisher's introductory blurb loosely inserted. "Blood Meridian comes at the reader like a slap in the face, an affront that asks us to endure a vision of the Old West full of charred human skulls, blood-soaked scalps, a tree hung with the bodies of dead infants. [It] makes it clear that all along Mr. McCarthy has asked us to witness evil not in order to understand it but to affirm its inexplicable reality; his elaborate language invents a world hinged between the real and surreal, jolting us out of complacency" (James). Caryn James, "'Blood Meridian' by Cormac McCarthy", New York Times, 28 Apr. 1985. Octavo. Original red cloth-backed red boards, spine lettered in gilt and ruled in metallic red. With dust jacket. Title page and facing page illustrated with map of New Mexico. Upper corner of front cover bumped; edges of jacket a touch rubbed, a few nicks to top edge, unclipped: a near-fine copy in like jacket.

Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom

McCarthy, Cormac. Blood Meridian or The Evening Redness in the West. Random House [1985], New York, 1985.

Price: US$7150.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: 8vo. [11], 3-337, [2] pp. Quarter red cloth over red paper boards, gold lettering and two red rules on the spine. Illustrated title page. Price of $17.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. McCarthy's classic, gruesome tale of American westward expansion in the middle of the nineteenth century. Litrerary critic Harold Bloom regarded Cormac McCarthy as one of the greatest American novelists of his generation. This novel made Time Magazine's top 100 list of the greatest English-language novels published between 1925 and 2005. A lovely example. Faint foxing to the textblock, mild, sporadic foxing in the pageblock; a tiny repair (3/4 c.m. wide) to the jacket's spine panel.

Seller: Evening Star Books, ABAA/ILAB, Madison, WI, U.S.A.

Cormac McCarthy. Blood Meridian, True First Edition, SIGNED. Random Housr, 1985.

Price: US$7500.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: BLOOD MERIDIAN, Cormac McCarthy (1985), True First Edition. Random House, 1985. SIGNED BY MCCARTHY on a tipped-in page. Condition: Near Fine Book, with red remainder mark on top page edges. Near Fine Dustjacket.

Seller: CWO Books, Cleveland, OH, U.S.A.

McCarthy, Cormac. Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West. Random House, 1985.

Price: US$9000.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: Stated first edition/first Printing with the correct number line (ending in a 2); A fine book in a fine dust jacket, as new and unread, housed in a decorative slipcase. A pristine book difficult to find in collectible condition; this volume is in unread, as new condition with a crisp, tight binding and beautiful white pages, housed in a likewise stunning dust jacket that shows none of the common rubbing and tearing to the jacket; only a slight darkening to the flap edges is present. A bucket list item for the McCarthy fan! Not remaindered, not price clipped, not ex-library; in a protective Mylar sleeve and will ship carefully wrapped in a sturdy box.

Seller: Grayshelf Books, ABAA, IOBA, Tomball, TX, U.S.A.

McCarthy, Cormac. BLOOD MERIDIAN Or the Evening Redness in the West. Random House, New York, 1985.

Price: US$9500.00 + shipping

Description: A fine, unread copy in a fine dust jacket. One of only 1883 copies sold before the book was remainered. Absolutely uncommon in this condition. In 1981 McCarthy (1933-2023) was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship worth $236,000. This windfall enabled him to travel the American Southwest researching his next book. This one. Packed with violence, truth, and screams from critics on both ends of the scale. When this book is read the massive force bearing down upon you is Cormac McCarthy, armed with the first onslaught of sustained virtuoso prose in the novel, a single all but breathless sentence running a page and a half long that opens with "A legion of horribles, hundreds in number, half naked or clad in costumes attic or biblical or wardrobed out of a fevered dream with the skins of animals and silk finery and pieces of uniform still tracked with the blood of previous owners" and closes with "all the horsemen's faces gaudy and grotesque with daubing's like a company of mounted clowns, death hilarious, all howling in a barbarous tongue and riding down upon them like a horde from a hell more horrible yet than the brimstone land of Christian reckoning, screeching and yammering and clothed in smoke like those vaporous beings in regions right knowing where the eye wanders and the lip jerks and drools." A fine copy in a fine dust jacket

Seller: Ed Smith Books, ABAA, Bainbridge Island, WA, U.S.A.

Mccarthy, Cormac. Blood Meridian. Random House, New York, 1985.

Price: US$9500.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: First Edition, First Printing SIGNED by Cormac Mccarthy on a laid in signature. A beautiful dustjacket that is rich in color with NO chips or tears. This original first issue dustjacket has the publisher's price present on the front flap with slight wear to the edges. The book is in excellent condition and appears UNREAD. The binding is tight, and the boards are crisp with NO remainder mark. The pages are clean, with no writing, marks or bookplates in the book. A superb copy of this true first edition SIGNED by the author. We buy Cormac McCarthy First Editions.

Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.

McCarthy Cormac. Blood Meridian or The Evening Redness in the West. Random House (1985), New York, 1985.

Price: US$10000.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: 337p octavo, A very fine unread copy in like dust jacket. Advance review copy with publisher's review slip, publicity photo, and publisher's news letter.

Seller: Old New York Book Shop, ABAA, Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.

McCarthy, Cormac. Blood Meridian (First Edition, First Printing). Random House, New York, 1985.

Price: US$10000.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: FIRST EDITION/FIRST PRINTING (number line to 2 with "First Edition" printed below - the code Random House used in the 1980s to indicate a first printing). New York, Random House, 1985. Book is FINE and appears to be unread, no marks. Only visible flaw is very light foxing on the top text block edge. Binding is tight and square, gilt lettering on spine is bright, no wear, no bumps, and no remainder mark, not ex-library. Dust Jacket is FINE with no noticeable wear, no fading, no chips, no tears, price is not clipped ($17.95). A sharp copy of what many consider McCarthy's best work housed in a beautiful heavy-duty custom-made slipcase with copies of the dust jacket front on the front and back of the case. Case made by Casemaker. Fast shipping from a smoke-free shop.

Seller: McInBooks, IOBA, Farmington, NM, U.S.A.

McCarthy, Cormac. Blood Meridian. Random House, New York, 1985.

Price: US$12500.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: An advance review copy of the first edition, first printing, with publisher's slip and prospectus laid in. Bound in publisher's crimson cloth quarter cloth over red paper covered boards, spine lettered in gilt, ruled in red. Near Fine with light lean to spine. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light fading to spine; blindside shows bleeding at spine ends and a small strip of toning. Several light creases and edge wear to publisher's laid in materials. A beautiful copy with review materials, and scarce thus.

Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.

McCarthy, Cormac. Blood Meridian or The Evening Redness in the West. Random House, New York, 1985.

Price: US$12500.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: First Edition, First Printing. A spectacular copy. This original unclipped dustjacket is rich in color with NO chips or tears. The book is in fabulous shape and appears UNREAD. The binding is tight and the boards are crisp. The pages are exceptionally clean with NO remainder mark to the bottom or top edges. There is NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. A superb copy. We buy Cormac McCarthy First Editons.

Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.

Cormac McCarthy. Blood Meridian. Random House, 1985.

Price: US$13000.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: McCarthy, Cormac. Blood Meridian First Edition, First printing. Review copy with all 3 original pieces of original ephemera including review slip, novel prospectus and author photo. Also comes housed in a custom made David Ashley clamshell case. Book in VG with slight lean. Light soiling and bumped corners. Clean internally and no remainder mark. Jacket VG with typical rubbing. Some curling at edges, micro tear to rear panel bottom edge. Indentation and slight scuff to rear panel. Not price clipped.

Seller: Books 4 Ewe, York, SC, U.S.A.

McCarthy, Cormac. Blood Meridian, or The Evening Redness in the West.. Random House, New York, 1985.

Price: US$20000.00 + shipping

Description: First edition of the author's fifth novel and masterpiece. Octavo, original half red cloth. Boldly signed by Cormac McCarthy on the front free endpaper. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Richard Adelson. Jacket painting by Salvador Dali. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box made by the Harcourt Bindery. An exceptional example. "Blood Meridian seems to me the authentic American apocalyptic novel, more relevant even in 2000 than it was fifteen years ago. The fulfilled renown of Moby-Dick and of As I Lay Dying is augmented by Blood Meridian, since Cormac McCarthy is the worthy disciple both of Melville and of Faulkner. I venture that no other living American novelist, not even Pynchon, has given us a book as strong and memorable as Blood Meridian" (Harold Bloom). McCarthy can only be compared with our greatest writers, with Melville and Faulkner, and this is his masterpiece" (Michael Herr). Time magazine included Blood Meridian in its "Time 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005". In 2006 The New York Times conducted a poll of writers and critics regarding the most important works in American fiction from the previous 25 years, and Blood Meridian was a runner-up.

Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.

McCarthy, Cormac. Blood Meridian, or The Evening Redness in the West.. Random House, New York, 1985.

Price: US$30000.00 + shipping

Description: First edition of the author's fifth novel and masterpiece. Octavo, original half red cloth. Association copy, warmly inscribed on the front free endpaper, "For John & Lanelle With much love Cormac." The recipients were close friends of McCarthy during his time spent in Knoxsville, Tennessee. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Richard Adelson. Jacket painting by Salvador Dali. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box made by the Harcourt Bindery. "Blood Meridian seems to me the authentic American apocalyptic novel, more relevant even in 2000 than it was fifteen years ago. The fulfilled renown of Moby-Dick and of As I Lay Dying is augmented by Blood Meridian, since Cormac McCarthy is the worthy disciple both of Melville and of Faulkner. I venture that no other living American novelist, not even Pynchon, has given us a book as strong and memorable as Blood Meridian" (Harold Bloom). McCarthy can only be compared with our greatest writers, with Melville and Faulkner, and this is his masterpiece" (Michael Herr). Time magazine included Blood Meridian in its "Time 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005". In 2006 The New York Times conducted a poll of writers and critics regarding the most important works in American fiction from the previous 25 years, and Blood Meridian was a runner-up.

Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.

McCarthy, Cormac. Blood Meridian. Random House, New York, 1985.

Price: US$35000.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: First edition, first printing. Signed by Cormac McCarthy and inscribed to a former owner on the half title page, "For Ken / This one's for you / All best [signed] Cormac". Bound in publisher's crimson cloth quarter cloth over red paper covered boards, spine lettered in gilt, ruled in red. Erasure mark to front free endpaper, still Fine in a Fine unclipped dust jacket. A stunning copy of the author's fifth novel, which though published to lukewarm praise is now viewed as his magnum opus.

Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.

McCarthy, Cormac. Blood Meridian, or The Evening Redness in the West.. Random House, New York, 1985.

Price: US$48000.00 + shipping

Description: First edition of the author's classic fifth novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author in the month of publication on the front free endpaper, "For John Sheddan At Saxon Oaks Manor In April of 1985 All the best, old friend Cormac." The recipient, John Sheddan was a close friend of McCarthy’s. “Some of McCarthy’s friends claim that the character Gene Harrogate (a character in McCarthy’s novel, Suttree), or at least his watermelon venture, was based in some way on John Sheddan, “scholar, schemer, hustler, melon paramour” (Gibson 23)….However in a letter of response to Gibson’s article, Knoxvillian Buzz Kelley writes that Sheddan was “probably McCarthy’s best and most loyal friend from the Knoxville crowd,” holder of two master’s degrees, and not at all “a violator of vegetables nor one to fornicate with fruits” (Dianne C. Luce, Reading the World: Cormac McCarthy’s Tennessee Period). Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with light wear. Jacket design by Richard Adelson. Jacket painting by Salvador Dali. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Next to the dedication copy, this is the best association possible. "Blood Meridian seems to me the authentic American apocalyptic novel, more relevant even in 2000 than it was fifteen years ago. The fulfilled renown of Moby-Dick and of As I Lay Dying is augmented by Blood Meridian, since Cormac McCarthy is the worthy disciple both of Melville and of Faulkner. I venture that no other living American novelist, not even Pynchon, has given us a book as strong and memorable as Blood Meridian" (Harold Bloom). McCarthy can only be compared with our greatest writers, with Melville and Faulkner, and this is his masterpiece" (Michael Herr).

Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.