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Child of God by McCarthy, Cormac - 1973

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Child of God by McCarthy, Cormac - 1973

Child of God

by McCarthy, Cormac

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Random House, 1973. First Edition (first printing). An exceptionally clean copy of the third novel by the author of BLOOD MERIDIAN and NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN, the story of a violent man falsely accused of rape who haunts the East Tennessee hill country when he is released from jail. Fine/Fine but for the front pastedown which is imperfectly aligned with the front board -- causing the text block to slightly sag. A bright, clean copy with the price intact on the front flap. . 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine.
  • Bookseller Bill Leone, Bookseller ABAA US (US)
  • Format/Binding Hardcover
  • Book Condition Used - Fine
  • Jacket Condition Fine
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  • Edition 1st Edition
  • Binding Hardcover
  • ISBN 10 0394487710
  • ISBN 13 9780394487717
  • Publisher Random House
  • Date Published 1973

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Child of God

Child of God

by Cormac McCarthy

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9780394487717
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0394487710
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New York: Random House. Very Good in As New dust jacket. 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. 0394487710 . Very good hardcover in As New facsimile dust jacket, which is wrapped. Stamp of original pricing on front end sheet. Excellent copy. No visible markings or underlining inside. ; 5 7/8" x 8 3/4"; 197 pages .
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CHILD OF GOD

by McCarthy, Cormac

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Used
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Hardcover
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0394487710
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New York: Random House, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, 197 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good dust jacket. Spine black with red and yellow lettering. Dust jacket protected in mylar covering, with price cut. Minor shelf wear. Light creasing to edges of dust jacket. Foxing to edges of text block and rear pastedown. Interior pages clean. Sticker adhered to front pastedown. Shelved in Case 8. 1372787. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
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CHILD OF GOD

by McCarthy, Cormac

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New York: Random House, 1973. First edition (stated). Near fine in near fine jacket.. First printing of McCarthy's third novel, a work of great vigor and depravity praised by the optimistic but anonymous jacket copywriter as "perhaps the most accessible of McCarthy's novels." Perhaps. CHILD OF GOD considers the limits of human degradation, a topic of interest to the author in his pathbreaking youth just as it would be in his illustrious and acclaimed old age. The novel was the occasion of a literary achievement against which all the hollow machinery of latter-day Hollywood could avail nothing; its ill-conceived 2013 film adaptation at the hands of a much-overmatched James Franco soon fell from the world and left no marks in its passing. Presented with a card signed by McCarthy's legendary Random House editor, Albert Erskine, a gentleman of the old school who left no recorded objections to the novel's necrophilia and merely requested from his author some elaboration of the details (Luce). 8'' x… Read More
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