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(n.p.), (n.p.), [c. 1975-1976]. McCarthy's script for the 1976 PBS film. 140 photocopied pages, with text that varies from the trade edition published by Ecco in 1996: significant changes in both camera directions and dialogue throughout, including four scenes that do not appear in the published version. Copied slightly off center, such that the last few letters of many words are missing; overall near fine. Scarce. Granted, a photocopy, but with provenance of three degrees of separation from the author, and in an envelope with a label that reads "Cormac McCarthy - The Gardener's Son / Duplicate copy." The copy of this script that went to Texas State University last year as part of the sale of McCarthy's literary archive was also a photocopy, suggesting that an "original" no longer exists. Together with a copy of the first trade edition [Hopewell: Ecco Press, 1996], which is fine in a fine dust jacket.   [#027242] $2,500

NY, Knopf, 2005. Signed by the author on a tipped-in leaf as issued by the publisher. Basis for the Coen Brothers film that won four Academy Awards including Best Picture. Fine in a fine dust jacket.   [#911074] $1,600

NY, Knopf, 2006. The uncorrected proof copy of his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, basis for the 2009 film. Advance copies of this book have turned out to be extremely scarce; it appears that far fewer of them were distributed than one would expect for a writer of McCarthy's stature. Reading crease to spine; small spots to foredge; near fine in wrappers.   [#027954] $1,250

NY, Knopf, 1992. The uncorrected proof copies, all three states, of the first volume of the Border Trilogy, a landmark novel that won both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award and propelled its author to "instant" literary celebrity -- after nearly three decades of writing well-received literary novels in relative obscurity. The first state proof prints "Volume One of A Border Trilogy" on the front cover. In the second state, the printed subtitle is changed by hand to "Volume One of The Border Trilogy" and a "4" is added to the publication date of May 1992. The third state makes these two changes in print and also changes the text correspondingly on the summary page. All three volumes fine in wrappers.   [#911225] $1,000

NY, Knopf, (1999). The first combined edition of All the Pretty Horses, The Crossing and Cities of the Plain, issued as a volume in Knopf's "Everyman's Library" series. Signed by McCarthy on a tipped-in sheet. Reportedly, this first printing was issued both with and without a dust jacket. This is the state without the jacket. Fine.   [#027950] $1,000

NY, Random House, (1973). His third book. Fine in a price-clipped jacket with a crease on the front flap, else fine.   [#911680] $975

NY, Knopf, 1998. The trade publisher's limited edition of the concluding volume in The Border Trilogy. One of 1000 (unnumbered) copies signed by the author on a tipped-in leaf. Relying on rumor, we are told that fewer than the stated limitation were actually signed. Fine in a fine dust jacket.   [#911688] $650

(Hopewell), Ecco, (1994). The limited edition of his first play. One of 350 numbered copies signed by the author on a tipped-in leaf. Fine without dust jacket, as issued, in a slipcase that is slightly rubbed, else fine.   [#911686] $450

NY, Knopf, 1994. The uncorrected proof copy of the sequel to All the Pretty Horses, and the second novel in The Border Trilogy. Fine in wrappers.   [#911683] $150

(London), Picador, (1998). An advance reading copy of the British edition, with a photograph of the author on the front cover that differs from the dust jacket art used for the published book. Fine in wrappers.   [#010901] $125

NY, Knopf, 2005. The advance reading copy of this novel of drugs and violence set in the contemporary Southwest, the film adaptation of which won four Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director. Fine in wrappers.   [#911693] $100

NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1994. Very Good in Very Good DJ.   [#706420] $75

NY, Knopf, 1998. A review copy of the concluding volume in The Border Trilogy. Fine in a fine dust jacket, with publisher's review slip laid in.   [#911689] $50

(London), Picador, (1994). The first British edition of the sequel to All the Pretty Horses, and the second novel in The Border Trilogy. Fine in a fine dust jacket.   [#911684] $50

(Hopewell, NJ), Ecco Press, (1994). First Trade Edition. Very Good in Very Good DJ.   [#706422] $40

NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1994. Later printing. Very Good in Very Good DJ.   [#706421] $25

(Hopewell), Ecco, (1994). The trade edition of his first play, which had a first printing of 7500 copies (compared with 150,000 copies for The Crossing, which was issued at about the same time). Fine in a fine dust jacket.   [#911687] $25

NY, Knopf, 1994. The sequel to All the Pretty Horses, and the second novel in The Border Trilogy. Fine in a fine dust jacket.   [#911685] $20