Item #805 Blood Meridian. Cormac McCarthy.

Blood Meridian

New York: Random House, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st edition. 1st issue with no remainder mark (one of the first 1,883 sold). Signed in ink. Fine in fine dustjacket. And by the way, putting a piece of paper signed by the author into a book, and calling it a signed book, is a lie. Fine / fine. Item #805

Is Blood Meridian the great novel of the 1980s? 37 years out is still too soon to tell because the affection for a book, and attraction to a book, within its own generation of collectors, only identifies the time in which they grew up, like having a tattoo of their favorite band only identifies in which decade they were the most drunk.

McCarthy’s themes juggle power, desolation, theodicy, anonymity, lack of loyalty, gnostic religious tragedy, the dehumanizing impact of atrocities, manifest destiny, and a love of violence, all 9 spiked by horror without warning, meaning you can’t count on seeing your name spelled out by flies on your bedroom wall before Satan decides it would amuse him to fuck with you. And another thing, Blood Meridian has all the charm of cutting into a loaf of bread and finding a dead mouse, so don’t take a shower before reading this book, because you are going to need a long one afterwards.

Price: $10,000.00

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