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Random House Publishing, 1965. 1. Hardcover. Good. Very Good Minus in a Good+ dust jacket; Hardcover; First Edition, Second Printing; Dust jacket has a couple small edge-tears, has a vertical crease inside the front jacket flap, and has been price-clipped, but is otherwise in nice condition (Now fitted with a new, Brodart jacket protector); Light wear to the boards; All three textblock sides are unblmeished, although there is fading to the green spray on the top textblock edge; Couple of tiny spot-marks to the right edge of the first endpaper and to pages 20 - 22, otherwise the endpapers and all text pages are clean and unmarked;; Medium Format (8.5" - 9.75" tall); 1.0 lbs; White dust jacket with title in red lettering; 1965, Random House Publishing; 246 pages; "Orchard Keeper," by Cormac McCarthy.
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About this book
The Orchard Keeper is the first novel by the American novelist Cormac McCarthy. Like all McCarthy's fiction, it has been heavily influenced by William Faulkner, probably more so than any of his other works. The novel is set in a small, isolated community in Tennessee, during the inter-war period. It is the story of John Wesley Rattner, a young boy, and Marion Sylder, an outlaw and bootlegger, who has killed Rattner's father, a fact to which both are oblivious.The writing of William Faulkner heavily influenced this novel, and it was awarded the 1966 William Faulkner Foundation Award for notable first novel.
First Edition Identification
The First edition of The Orchard keeper was published by Random House in 1965. It has five reviews of the novel on the back dust jacket, including blurbs by Ralph Ellison, Robert Penn Warren, and James A. Michener. Author photo on the back inside flap and a $4.95 price stamp on the front flap. Stated 'First Edition' on the copyright page.
Details
- Title Orchard Keeper, 1st Edition
- Author McCarthy, Cormac
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition; F
- Publisher Random House, New York
- Date 1965
- ISBN 9780394439365
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Orchard Keeper
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The Orchard Keeper
by McCARTHY, Cormac
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New York: Random House, 1965. Softcover. Very Good. Uncorrected proof. Light gray printed wrappers. Faint dampstain along the edge of the front wrap, and very faintly in the bottom margins of pages. Advance issue of the author's first book. Despite a strong following among literary cognoscenti, McCarthy remained obscure for years until he finally left Random House in the late 1980s and Knopf's publicity department helped propel him into the first rank of American authors with *All the Pretty Horses*. Very scarce.
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