Blood Meridian; Or, The Evening Redness in the West McCarthy, Cormac Modern First Editions & Modern Literature

337pp. Octavo [21.5 cm.] 1/2 red cloth over matching boards. Some light discolored spots to the rear board. Fore-edge of text block minimally foxed. In the dust jacket, with general mild rubbing and scratching to the surface, a subtle vertical crease through the center of the front panel, and areas of browning to the reverse of the jacket. Cormac McCarthy's literary masterpiece. Largely ignored upon its release, 'Blood Meridian' is now seen as McCarthy's finest work. This work marks the beginning of McCarthy's "Southwestern Period". Blood Meridian was ranked third in a New York Times poll of the most important American works of the last 25 years. This is an epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expansion, brilliantly subverting the conventions of the Western novel and the mythology of the Wild West. Considered one of the great American writers, Cormac McCarthy (1933-2023) received several literary awards, including the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award.