NY, Random House, (1965). The uncorrected proof copy of McCarthy's first book, which won a Faulkner Foundation Award for best first novel of the year. Although the book was successful enough to go into a second printing, fewer than 3000 copies were sold in total, and it was a quarter century before McCarthy's All the Pretty Horses won the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award and brought him recognition beyond the small, passionate circle of devotees who had been aware of him over the years. Foxing to page edges and some minor staining to covers; some spotting to the spine and darkening from bleed-through of binder's glue. It is worth noting that an early and enthusiastic supporter of McCarthy's book at Random House was Albert Erskine, who was at the time the Editorial Director of the company and had been William Faulkner's editor, as well as being instrumental in the publication of Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man and Malcolm Lowry's Under the Volcano. Although he was not technically working as an editor at that time, Erskine took McCarthy under his wing and worked with him on the book over the course of nearly two years because he believed in it so strongly. A very good copy in wrappers. Scarce. [#027946] SOLD

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