Blood Meridian, or The Evening Redness in the West.

MCCARTHY, Cormac.

Item Number: 5094

New York: Random House, 1985.

First edition of the author’s fifth novel. Octavo, original half red cloth. Signed by Cormac McCarthy on the half title page. An excellent example in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Richard Adelson. 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).