Library Addition: Four Cormac McCarthy Titles

Posted on December 27, 2022 by Lawrence Person

Four different Cormac McCarthy books, two or three firsts and one or two first thus, bought from three different sources:

  • McCarthy, Cormac. Blood Meridian. Folio Society, 2022. First edition thus, an illustrated prestige reprint edition, a Fine copy in decorated boards, sans dust jacket, as issued, in Fine slipcase, with packed-by sip laid in. His celebrated ultra-violent western. While I was in the Dallas area, I saw two firsts of Blood Meridian at two different Half Price Books stores: one was $3,500, and the other was $4,000. So I may not be able to track down an affordable first of that any time soon. Bought from the Folio Society at cover price.

  • McCarthy, Cormac. Cities of the Plain. Knopf, 1998. First edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. The third book in the Border trilogy. Bought for $9.99

  • McCarthy, Cormac. The Passenger and Stella Maris. Knopf, 2022. Each is a stated first edition (though there was an earlier solo release of The Passenger with a different dust jacket; without a copy of that in hand I can’t tell if the two are otherwise identical, so either first edition thus or first edition in a second state dust jacket), each a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket and a fine decorated slipcase. Stella Maris is “a tightly controlled coda, told entirely in dialogue” to The Passenger. Bought from Amazon for $45.45 for the pair.

    • About Lawrence Person

    Lawrence Person is a science fiction writer living in Austin, Texas. His short fiction has appeared in Asimov's, Analog, Postscripts, Jim Baen's Universe, Fear, and several anthologies. He also edits the Hugo-nominated SF critical magazine Nova Express, and runs the Turkey City Writer's Workshop. His non-fiction has appeared in National Review, Reason, Whole Earth Review, The Freeman, The World & I, Science Fiction Eye, The New York Review of Science Fiction, and Slashdot.org. He owns such a large library (mostly science fiction first editions) he had to buy a two-story house to put it in, and then adopted a golden retriever to drag him out of his house on a regular basis. He also makes a mean batch of salsa.
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