blood meridian von mccarthy (46 Ergebnisse)

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Zustand: Very Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Zustand: Very Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Zustand: Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Zustand: Good. Ships from the UK. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Blood Meridian is an epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expansion, brilliantly subverting the conventions of the Western novel and the mythology of the Wild West. Based on historical events that took place on the Texas-Mexico border in the 1850s, it traces the fortunes of the Kid, a fourteen-year-old Tennesseean who stumbles into a nightmarish world where Indians are being murdered and the market for their scalps is thriving. 'McCarthy's achievement is to establish a new mythology which is as potent and vivid as that of the movies, yet one which has absolutely the opposite effect.He is a great writer" - "Independent". "I have rarely encountered anything as powerful, as unsettling, or as memorable as "Blood Meridian".A nightmare odyssey" - "Evening Standard". "His masterpiece.The book reads like a conflation of the "Inferno", "The Iliad" and "Moby Dick". I can only declare that "Blood Meridian" is unlike anything I have read in recent years, and seems to me an extraordinary, breathtaking achievement" - John Banville. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Zustand: very good. Gut/Very good: Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit wenigen Gebrauchsspuren an Einband, Schutzumschlag oder Seiten. / Describes a book or dust jacket that does show some signs of wear on either the binding, dust jacket or pages.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Una impresionante e imaginativa fábula moral acerca de la naturaleza de la violencia y la justicia, en su 25 aniversario de publicada.

Zustand: New. The novels of the American writer Cormac McCarthy have received a number of literary awards, including the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. His works adapted to film include&#160All the Pretty H.

Hardcover. Octavo, xv. 351 pages. In Very Good minus condition with a Very Good condition dust jacket. Burgundy spine with white lettering outlined in red. Dust jacket is wrapped in a mylar covering, price is uncut "U.S.A. $23.00 - Canada "$25.95", has mild shelving wear and a small closed tear on the rear tail edge. Boards have a large dent on the rear tail edge and a stain on the rear head edge. Textblock has mild shelving wear along the edges. Shelved Room C. 1391913. Special Collections. First 25th Anniversary Edition, First Printing.

Hardcover. Octavo, 337 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good condition dust jacket. Burgundy spine with red and orange lettering. Dust jacket is wrapped in a mylar covering, price is uncut "$17.95", has mild shelving wear along the extremities and a small closed tear along the rear tail edge. Boards have mild age-toning along the head and tail edges. Textblock has a small stain on the "Books by" page and mild shelving wear along the edges. DL consignment. Shelved in Case 7. An early copy, without the usual later remainder mark. "Blood Meridian" was Cormac McCarthy's fifth novel, a dark and bloody western which, though well recieved by some critics, was an immense commercial failure, with fewer than 1,500 selling of a 5,000 book run. However, after the success of McCarthy's "The Border Triolgy", many revisited his older works, "Blood Meridian" in particular gaining immense popularity. Today, "Blood Meridian" is hailed as McCarthy's magnum opus with many considering it one of the greatest American novels ever written. "Blood Meridian" has seen several attempts at a film adaptation since 1995, it's most recent attempt happening in 2023 headed by John Hilcoat, who had previously adapted McCarthy's novel "The Road" 1391938. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. First Edition, First Printing, First Issue Dust Jacket.

First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 337 pages. The fifth novel, a brilliant and incredibly violent book from the author of "All The Press Horses" and the recent "Stella Maris" and "The Passenger." A clean and tight near fine copy in paper covered boards with cloth spine and with the usual remainder mark to the bottom edge of the pages and in a near fine dust jacket with a few miniscule nicks and some other very minor edge wear. A very nice copy of one of the most powerful novels of the 20th century.

HARDCOVER. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st UK edition. 337pp, octavo hc in jacket w/mylar, red boards with silver spine titles, tight binding, clean pages, sharp corners, clean boards, jacket is clean, colorful, and bright, top of page block has a 1mm space of seperation from the backstrip and the slightest of leans. A lovely copy of the scarce First UK volume.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. FIRST. A FINE FIRST IN DJ. NOT PRICE CLIPPED NO REMAINDER MARK. tiny piece of tape on back of dj.

First UK edition, first printing. Original red cloth with white titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. A near fine copy, the binding square and firm with a little bumping at the spine tips, the cloth bright and fresh. The contents, unavoidably toned due to the poor quality paper stock, a couple of pages with a tiny nick (without loss) to the upper edge, are otherwise clean and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the lightly creased dustwrapper that is without fading, loss or tears. Not price-clipped (£11.95 to the rear flap). The first British edition of Cormac McCarthy's fifth book, his magnum opus, first published in America by Random House in April 1985. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

Cloth. Zustand: Near fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: near fine. The first edition, first printing of Blood Meridian, inscribed by Cormac McCarthy. (illustrator). First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, [9], 337pp. Red hardcover, cloth spine, title stamped in gilt. Stated "First Edition" with a full number line. This copy appears unread. Light dust remnant along top of text block, internally fine. Red ink mark near headband along top edge. In the publisher's first state dust jacket, $17.95 on the front flap, photography by Mark Morrow on rear panel, touch of shelf wear, insignificant closed tear near head of spine on the rear panel, overall a bright, near fine example. Housed in custom black cloth clamshell. Signed on the half-title: "For Gregory / All best wishes from your friend / Cormac." This copy is from the private collection of Gregory Amenoff, Professor Emeritus of Visual Arts at Columbia University. Amenoffwas President of the National Academy of Design from 2001-2005 and a founding member of the CUE Art Foundation. A goodfriend of Professor Amenoff's became close to Mr.McCarthy when he was living in El Paso.During visits to his friend to El Paso in the late 1980's and early 1990"s Amenoff was introduced to Mr. McCarthy and had occasion to ask him if he could sign few of his most significant works, The books have been in his collectionsince then.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. First UK edition, first impression. The author's fifth novel, set in the Old West in the mid-19th century, and considered to be among the best works of American literature. Original red cloth with white lettering to spine. A fine copy with some of the usual toning to edges in a fine dust jacket. A superior example.

First edition of Cormac McCarthy's fifth novel, widely considered his masterpiece and among the greatest novels of the 20th century. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For Anne With Love Cormac." The recipient, Anne DeLisle was McCarthy's second wife. McCarthy published his debut novel, The Orchard Keeper, in 1965, earning the William Faulkner Award for Best First Novel and a Rockefeller Grant. With his grant money, he traveled aboard the Sylvania, where he met singer and dancer Annie DeLisle of The Healy Sisters duo. The two fell in love and married on May 14, 1966, in Annieâs hometown of Hamble, England. Using their combined incomes, the couple traveled through Paris and Geneva before settling on Ibiza, where they joined the islandâs vibrant artistic community. There, McCarthy completed Outer Dark while bonding with fellow novelist Leslie Garrett. In 1967, they returned to the U.S., settling first on a Tennessee farm and later in a restored barn in Louisville, funded by McCarthyâs Guggenheim Fellowship. During this period, McCarthy wrote Suttree and completed Child of God in 1973. Annie recalled these times fondly, despite their modest means, noting McCarthyâs reclusive nature and dedication to his craft. The couple separated in 1976, after which McCarthy moved to El Paso and continued his literary ascent. Blood Meridian (1985) cemented his reputation, and All the Pretty Horses (1991) brought widespread fame, making him one of the most significant writers of the 20th century. Annie stayed in Tennessee, opening Annieâs, a jazz club and gourmet restaurant in Knoxvilleâs Old City in 1983. The venue played a key role in revitalizing the area, offering live music reminiscent of New Orleans. Though Annie moved on in 1989, the restaurant remained a local fixture until 2004. Very good in a very good dust jacket with some light wear and small closed tears to the extremities. Jacket painting: "The Phantom Cart" by Salvador Dali. Jacket design by Richard Adelson. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box by the Harcourt Bindery. Founded over a century ago in 1900, the Harcourt Bindery is the oldest and largest traditional bindery in America exclusively devoted to fine traditional leather bookbinding by hand. An exceptional association copy of the author's profound and significant magnum opus. "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). While All the Pretty Horses brought McCarthy widespread fame and The Road won him a Pulitzer Prize, Blood Meridian is frequently cited as his magnum opus for its profound complexity and lasting impact on American literature.

First edition of the author's classic fifth novel. Octavo, original half red cloth. Boldly signed by Cormac McCarthy on the half-title page in a contemporary hand. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with a touch of shelfwear. Jacket design by Richard Adelson. Jacket painting by Salvador Dali. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box by the Harcourt Bindery. "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).

Cloth. Zustand: Near Fine. None (illustrator). First edition. The first UK edition of Cormac McCarthy's great American novel, an epic historical western set in the American Frontier. The first UK edition, first impression. The work was first published four years prior in the US.In the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper.Sometimes termed an 'anti-Western', McCarthy's novel is widely regarded as one of the greatest American novels of all time.David Foster Wallace termed it one of the most underappreciated American novels, and also '[p]robably the most horrifying book of this [20th] century, at least [in] fiction'.The novel has been compared with the works of Melville and Faulkner. In the publisher's original cloth binding, and unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, very smart, with bumping to back strip tail. Dust wrapper bright, with light edgewear to back strip head, and further edge wear to back strip tail. Small areas to the front wrap where the clear covering of the dust wrapper is a touch raised and age toned. Internally, firmly bound. Pages lightly age toned to perimeters due to paper type, otherwise clean. Near Fine. book.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. First edition. 8vo. [11], 3-337, [2] pp. Quarter red cloth over red paper boards, gold lettering and two red rules on the spine. Illustrated title page. Price of $17.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. McCarthy's classic, gruesome tale of American westward expansion in the middle of the nineteenth century. Litrerary critic Harold Bloom regarded Cormac McCarthy as one of the greatest American novelists of his generation. This novel made Time Magazine's top 100 list of the greatest English-language novels published between 1925 and 2005. A lovely example. Faint foxing to the textblock, mild, sporadic foxing in the pageblock; a tiny repair (3/4 c.m. wide) to the jacket's spine panel.

First UK edition; 8vo; slight toning to text block (as often), else unmarked internally; publisher's red cloth, white lettering to spine, spine ends slightly bumped, light spotting to edges, with the unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, without usual fading to spine panel, minor spotting and toning, else very good. First UK edition of McCarthy's epic novel Blood Meridian. This is McCarthy at his most baroque and apocalyptic.

First edition of the author's fifth novel and masterpiece. Octavo, original half red cloth. Association copy, warmly inscribed on the front free endpaper, "For John & Lanelle With much love Cormac." The recipients were close friends of McCarthy during his time spent in Knoxsville, Tennessee. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Richard Adelson. Jacket painting by Salvador Dali. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box made by the Harcourt Bindery. "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). Time magazine included Blood Meridian in its "Time 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005". In 2006 The New York Times conducted a poll of writers and critics regarding the most important works in American fiction from the previous 25 years, and Blood Meridian was a runner-up.

First British edition of the author's classic fifth novel. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Cormac McCarthy on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket illustration by George Sharp. Uncommon signed. "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).

Hardcover. Zustand: Near fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: near fine. First Edition. First UK edition, first printing, octavo size, 345 pp., signed by Cormac McCarthy. Cormac McCarthy (born Charles Joseph McCarthy, Jr., in 1933), is acknowledged by many as one of the greatest contemporary American writers. His first novel, "The Orchard Keeper", won a 1966 William Faulkner Foundation Award for notable first novel; "All the Pretty Horses" would win the National Book Award in 1992, and "No Country for Old Men", conceived as a screen play (and later turned into a novel) won four Academy Awards. He would eventually author twelve novels, three short stories, five screenplays and two plays. This the first UK edition of McCarthy's "Great American Novel"; it was McCarthy's fifth novel and although it received only lukewarm praise upon publication, it is now viewed as his magnum opus. The first UK edition scarce signed; as of this writing, we see no copies online. ___DESCRIPTION: Bound in full red textured paper over boards, white lettering stamped onto the spine, copyright page with full number line, simply signed "Cormac McCarthy" on the sectional title page in black ink; octavo size (8 5/8" by 5 3/8"), pagination: [i-viii] [1-2] 3-337. The unclipped dust jacket with a wrap-around illustration (by George Sharp) of a horseman riding over a landscape with a blood-red sky behind him, black and red lettering, review blurb on the bottom of the front panel, short summary of the book and review blurbs on the front flap, short author bio on the back flap with original price of GBP 11.95 at the bottom. ___CONDITION: Volume near fine, the paper over the boards clean, the white on the spine not worn or flaked, a strong, square text block with solid hinges, and entirely free of prior owner markings; the head of the spine with a slight bump extending for about an inch at the very top of the front board, tail of the spine very gently bumped, corners gently bumped but not rubbed, interior pages lightly toned. The unclipped dust jacket also near fine, clean, not sunned (the reds on the spine as deep as on the panels), with very minor edgewear. ___PROVENANCE: We acquired this book from a collector who purchased it from an ABAA member who confirmed the signature, details available upon request. ___POSTAGE: International customers, please note that additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs; please inquire for details. ___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA, ILAB, and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have, we are here to help.

First edition of the author's classic fifth novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author in the month of publication on the front free endpaper, "For John Sheddan At Saxon Oaks Manor In April of 1985 All the best, old friend Cormac." The recipient, John Sheddan was a close friend of McCarthyâs. âSome of McCarthyâs friends claim that the character Gene Harrogate (a character in McCarthyâs novel, Suttree), or at least his watermelon venture, was based in some way on John Sheddan, âscholar, schemer, hustler, melon paramourâ (Gibson 23)â¦.However in a letter of response to Gibsonâs article, Knoxvillian Buzz Kelley writes that Sheddan was âprobably McCarthyâs best and most loyal friend from the Knoxville crowd,â holder of two masterâs degrees, and not at all âa violator of vegetables nor one to fornicate with fruitsâ (Dianne C. Luce, Reading the World: Cormac McCarthyâs Tennessee Period). Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with light wear. Jacket design by Richard Adelson. Jacket painting by Salvador Dali. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Next to the dedication copy, this is the best association possible. "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).

First UK edition, first impression, of this contender for the title of the Great American Novel. McCarthy's shockingly violent work initially sold slowly but was soon proclaimed as among the all-time best works of American literature. Published in 1985, it appeared in the UK four years later. "Blood Meridian comes at the reader like a slap in the face, an affront that asks us to endure a vision of the Old West full of charred human skulls. [It] makes it clear that all along Mr McCarthy has asked us to witness evil not in order to understand it but to affirm its inexplicable reality; his elaborate language invents a world hinged between the real and surreal, jolting us out of complacency" (James). Caryn James, "'Blood Meridian' by Cormac McCarthy", New York Times, 28 April 1985. Octavo. Original red boards, spine lettered in white. With dust jacket. Bump to spine ends, contents slightly toned but clean; bright, unclipped jacket with single nick and very faint splash marks at edges: a very good copy in like jacket.

First edition, first printing, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "for Al Lowman, all best wishes, Cormac McCarthy". Lowman was a respected Texas historian who spent his life studying and sharing stories of the American Southwest, the setting for McCarthy's most celebrated works, including No Country for Old Men, All the Pretty Horses, and his brutal masterpiece and quintessential Old West novel, Blood Meridian. McCarthy grew up in Tennessee and Appalachia, where many of his early works are set. His first trip to Texas in 1970 inspired him to write Blood Meridian, and in 1974 he moved to El Paso to immerse himself in the history and geography of the region. The subsequent work was "as close to history as novels generally get, drawn in sometimes verbatim tones from memoirs, chronicles, eyewitness testimony" (Mitchell). McCarthy was a notoriously reclusive author, but it is likely he and Lowman met during the course of McCarthy's research. Lowman (1935-2013) curated the special exhibits and catalogues at the Institute of Texan Cultures in San Antonio and served as president of the Texas State Historical Association, the Texas Folklore Society, and the Book Club of Texas. He was a member of the Grolier Club and the Philosophical Society of Texas, and he published a number of book, including Printing Arts in Texas (1975), "the best history of fine printing in Texas" (Jenkins), and This Bitterly Beautiful Land: A Texas Commonplace Book (1972), with an introduction by Carl Hertzog, El Paso's master printer and an internationally renowned book designer. The year before his death, Lowman wrote a love-letter to the Texas of his youth: "My earliest memories are of Aladdin lanterns, battery-powered radios, treadle sewing machines, and mud roads. The fecund black earth extended from our house in all directions. Four hundred years before my time Cabeza de Vaca saw part of Nueces County and described 'vast and handsome pastures, with good grass for cattle. it strikes me the soil would be very fertile were the country inhabited and improved by reasonable people.' Nothing waits more patiently than the earth itself." John Jenkins, Basic Texas Books, 1983; Al Lowman, "Some Recollections of Defining Events", First Timers and Old Timers: the Texas Folklore Society Fire Burns On, 2012; Lee Clark Mitchell, "A Book 'Made Out of Books': the Humanizing Violence of Style in Blood Meridian", Texas Studies in Literature and Language, vol. 57, no. 3, 2015. Octavo. Title page and facing page illustrated with map of New Mexico. Original red quarter-cloth, spine lettered in gilt and ruled in metallic red, red paper sides. With dust jacket. Very faint foxing to top edge: a fine copy in fine, unclipped jacket.

Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. First Edition. First edition, first printing. Signed by Cormac McCarthy and inscribed to a former owner on the half title page, "For Ken / This one's for you / All best [signed] Cormac". Bound in publisher's crimson cloth quarter cloth over red paper covered boards, spine lettered in gilt, ruled in red. Erasure mark to front free endpaper, still Fine in a Fine unclipped dust jacket. A stunning copy of the author's fifth novel, which though published to lukewarm praise is now viewed as his magnum opus.

Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. First Edition. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's crimson cloth quarter cloth over red paper covered boards, spine lettered in gilt, ruled in red. Near Fine with remainder mark to top of textblock edge, in a NearFine unclipped dust jacket with light rubbing, light wear to the extremities and a small scuff to the spine panel.