Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy
First edition, first printing of McCarthy's magnum opus and one of the greatest American novels of all time.
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. Light rubbing to cloth, some of the spine gilt a touch dulled, a couple faint smudges to bottom edge of text block and minor foxing and a remainder mark to top edge of text block. The dust jacket remains in remarkably nice condition, showing just traces of shelfwear and a couple minuscule closed tears. A very nice copy, protected in archival mylar.