Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West **RARE 2001 FIRST MODERN LIBRARY EDITION WITH DUST JACKET IN NEAR FINE CONDITION**

McCarthy, Cormac; Harold Bloom (Introduction)

ISBN 10: 0679641041 / ISBN 13: 9780679641049

Published by The Modern Library, New York, 2001

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**RARE 2001 FIRST MODERN LIBRARY EDITION WITH DUST JACKET IN NEAR FINE CONDITION** Blood Meridian or The Evening Redness in The West by Cormac McCarthy. FIRST MODERN LIBRARY EDITION 2001, first printing with full number line on copyright page. The book is bound in grey cloth boards, ML binding style 17 with modern library running torchbearer end papers and a beautiful photographic dust jacket. Book is NEAR FINE - gilt bright and nice, no writing or marks, contents are clean and bright, with the slightest of shelf wear. GORGEOUS! The dust jacket is NEAR FINE. Basically in new bookstore condition with the slightest of shelf wear at extremities. $19.95 price on inside front flap. Now protected in an archival-quality dust jacket protector. RARE FIRST MODERN LIBRARY PRINTING OF A WONDERFUL BOOK **I WILL BE LISTIING OVER 400 COLLECTIBLE, RARE, OR SIGNED MODERN LIBRARY EDITIONS OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL MONTHS FROM 30 YEARS OF ACTIVE COLLECTING AROUND THE WORLD - PLEASE VISIT MY SELLERS PAGE TO VIEW THEM ALL**.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West **RARE 2001 FIRST MODERN LIBRARY EDITION WITH DUST JACKET IN NEAR FINE CONDITION**
• Publisher: The Modern Library, New York
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0679641041
• ISBN 13: 9780679641049
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine

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Synopsis

The “masterpiece” (Michael Herr) of the New York Times bestselling, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Road, No Country for Old Men, The Passenger, and Stella Maris
 
“Cormac McCarthy is the worthy disciple both of Melville and Faulkner. I venture that no other living American novelist, not even Pynchon, has given us a book as strong and memorable.”—Harold Bloom, from his Introduction
 
“McCarthy is a writer to be read, to be admired, and quite honestly—envied.”—Ralph Ellison
 
One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years

Widely considered one of the finest novels by a living writer, Blood Meridian is an epic tale of the violence and corruption that attended America’s westward expansion, brilliantly subverting the conventions of the Western novel and the mythology of the “Wild West.” Its wounded hero, the Kid, a fourteen-year-old Tennessean, must confront the extraordinary brutality of the Glanton gang, a murderous cadre on an official mission to scalp Indians. Seeming to preside over this nightmarish world is the diabolical Judge Holden, one of the most unforgettable characters in American fiction.
 
Based on historical events that took place on the Texas-Mexico border in the 1850s, Blood Meridian represents a genius vision of the historical West, one whose stature has only grown in the years since its publication.

About the Author

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 All the Pretty Horses, The Road, and No Country for Old Men—the latter film receiving four Academy Awards, including the award for Best Picture. He died in 2023.