- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Hughes Rare Books, Bloomfield, CT, U.S.A.Hughes Rare Books
AbeBooks seller since April 17, 2026
Association member: IOBA
Condition: Used - Very good
US$ 1,225.00
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketItem description from seller
First edition of McCarthy's third novel Publisher and Year : New York: Random House, 1973 Edition : First edition (stated), first printing, in a price-clipped dust jacket. Condition and Description : Octavo, red paper-covered boards stamped in blind, navy cloth backstrip stamped in gilt, 197 pp. Faint stain to the cloth on the front board. Spine crown softened. Minimal handling marks and wear to the boards and spine otherwise. Secure hinges and binding. Clean pages, with no writing, underlining, or prior owner's markings. Dust jacket price-clipped and with toning, rubbing, and some scratching to the surface; nicks and wear to the edges; and a vertical crease to the rear flap. Select closeups of the jacket in angled light are provided at the rear of the photo gallery. Preserved in a removable mylar cover. "At one time in the world there were woods that no one owned." Inventory ID: 330 - 497 - 518.
Seller Inventory # 330 - 497 - 518
Bibliographic details
- Title
- Child of God
- Author
- Cormac McCarthy
- Publisher
- Random House, New York
- Publication year
- 1973
- Condition
- Very good
- Dust jacket
- Dust Jacket Included
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Edition
- First edition, first printing.
Hughes Rare Books
Bloomfield, CT, U.S.A.
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Specializing in important works of literature, philosophy, and science, with a particular emphasis on first and early editions from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries., banned and censored books (e.g., Tropic of Cancer), modernist fiction, and notable authors such as Mark Twain, Jules Verne, and Ernest Hemingway.Association member
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Hughes Rare Books
CT, U.S.A.
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