{"id":21665,"date":"2022-12-27T08:06:47","date_gmt":"2022-12-27T14:06:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=21665"},"modified":"2022-12-26T20:07:58","modified_gmt":"2022-12-27T02:07:58","slug":"library-addition-four-cormac-mccarthy-titles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=21665","title":{"rendered":"Library Addition: Four Cormac McCarthy Titles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four different Cormac McCarthy books, two or three firsts and one or two first thus, bought from three different sources:<\/p>\n<li>McCarthy, Cormac. <b>Blood Meridian<\/b>. 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 <b>Blood Meridian<\/b> 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.\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Folio-Blood-Meridian.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Folio-Blood-Meridian-665x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"693\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-21689\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Folio-Blood-Meridian-665x1024.png 665w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Folio-Blood-Meridian-195x300.png 195w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Folio-Blood-Meridian-768x1182.png 768w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Folio-Blood-Meridian.png 1166w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<li>McCarthy, Cormac. <b>Cities of the Plain<\/b>. Knopf, 1998. First edition hardback, a Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. The third book in the Border trilogy. Bought for $9.99\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Cities-of-the-Plain.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Cities-of-the-Plain-694x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"664\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-21692\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Cities-of-the-Plain-694x1024.png 694w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Cities-of-the-Plain-203x300.png 203w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Cities-of-the-Plain-768x1134.png 768w, https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Cities-of-the-Plain.png 1168w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<li>McCarthy, Cormac. <b>The Passenger<\/b> and <b>Stella Maris<\/b>. Knopf, 2022. Each is a stated first edition (though there was an earlier solo release of <b>The Passenger<\/b> with a different dust jacket; without a copy of that in hand I can&#8217;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. <b>Stella Maris<\/b> is &#8220;a tightly controlled coda, told entirely in dialogue&#8221; to <b>The Passenger<\/b>. Bought from Amazon for $45.45 for the pair.\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/McCarthy-Passenger-Stella-Set.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/McCarthy-Passenger-Stella-Set.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"378\" height=\"1903\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-21695\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. 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