“THEIR NAMES ARE MYTH, LEGEND, DUST”: FIRST EDITION OF CORMAC MCCARTHY’S FIRST BOOK
MCCARTHY, Cormac. The Orchard Keeper. New York: Random House, (1965). Octavo, original half green cloth, original dust jacket.
First edition of McCarthy’s first book.
Critically praised but popularly ignored, McCarthy finally achieved prominence a quarter century after the publication of his first book, winning both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer in the 1990s.
Book fine, bright dust jacket with tape repair on verso to foot of spine. A lovely copy.