Holiday Gifts 2020

21 Holiday Gifts December 2020 “The Major Esthetic Achievement Of Any Living American Writer” 49. MCCARTHY, Cormac. Blood Meridian, or The Evening Redness in the West. New York, 1985. Octavo, original half red cloth, dust jacket. $5000. Click for more info First edition of McCarthy’s mythic vision of the American West, an exceptional copy in original dust jacket. Most copies of the first edition were remaindered—this copy, however, bears no remainder mark. Fine. “Smiley Has Started To Look Like The Best Living American Novelist” (The Guardian) 50. SMILEY, Jane. Collection of Novels. New York, 1980-2007. Eleven volumes altogether. Octavo, original half cloth, dust jackets. $1900. Click for more info First editions of Smiley’s first eleven novels, from her first work of fiction Barn Blind (1980) to her Pulitzer Prize-winning A Thousand Acres (1991), basis for the acclaimed 1997 film, and culminating in her novel Ten Days in the Hills (2007), with three signed by her: Barn Blind, Duplicate Keys, Horse Heaven. Fine. “Let’s Hear It For The Vague Blur!” 48. DICK, Philip K. A Scanner Darkly. Garden City, 1977. Octavo, original tan paper boards, dust jacket. $1850. Click for more info First edition of Dick’s “suburban phantasmagoria” (New York Times), his finely crafted and frightening vision of drug culture, social conformity, and the struggle to discern reality. Fine. L i t e r a t u r e