LITERATURE 24 “The Major Esthetic Achievement Of Any Living American Writer”: First Edition Of Blood Meridian, Signed By Cormac McCarthy First edition of McCarthy’s mythic vision of the American West, signed by him. Compared to the works of Dante, Poe, Melville and Faulkner; Harold Bloom called Blood Meridian “clearly the major esthetic achievement of any living American writer.” To fellow novelist Madison Smartt Bell, “McCarthy puts most other American writers to shame… His diction and phrasing come from all over the evolutionary history of English and combine into a prose that seems to invent itself as it unfolds, resembling Elizabethan language in its flux of remarkable possibilities” (New York Times). Little noticed at the time of publication, most copies of the first edition were remaindered—this copy does not have a remainder mark on the text block. Faint offsetting to front endpapers. A fine signed copy. 28MCCARTHY, Cormac. Blood Meridian, or The Evening Redness in the West. New York, 1985. Octavo, original half red cloth, dust jacket, custom clamshell box. $25,000
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