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No Country for Old Men.
by McCARTHY, Cormac
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- hardcover
- Signed
- First
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About This Item
New Orleans: B.E. Trice Publishing, 2005. Signed by the author First edition, signed limited issue, number 67 of 75 copies signed by the author and issued in a deluxe binding. This example survives in the original shrinkwrap, unopened. The book was the basis for the 2007 film of the same name, starring Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, and Josh Brolin. Octavo. Original red half morocco, marbled paper boards, titles to spine gilt. Housed in the publisher's red cloth slipcase. In the original shrinkwrap, unopened. A fine copy.
Synopsis
No Country for Old Men is a 2005 novel by American author Cormac McCarthy. Set along the United States–Mexico border in 1980, the story concerns an illicit drug deal gone wrong in a remote desert location. The title comes from the poem "Sailing to Byzantium" by William Butler Yeats. The book was adapted into the 2007 film No Country for Old Men, which won four Academy Awards, including Best Picture.
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Details
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- Peter Harrington
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- Bookseller’s Inventory #
- 139660
- Title
- No Country for Old Men.
- Author
- McCARTHY, Cormac
- Book condition
- second hand
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- New Orleans: B.E. Trice Publishing,
- Date Published
- 2005
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About Peter Harrington
Since its establishment, Peter Harrington has specialised in sourcing, selling and buying the finest quality original first editions, signed, rare and antiquarian books, fine bindings and library sets. Peter Harrington first began selling rare books from the Chelsea Antiques Market on London's King's Road. For the past twenty years the business has been run by Pom Harrington, Peter's son.
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- spine
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- Cloth
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- octavo
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- unopened
- A state in which all or some of the pages of a book have not been separated from the adjacent pages, caused by a traditional... [more]
- gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in... [more]
- fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the... [more]
- marbled paper
- Decorative colored paper that imitates marble with a veined, mottled, or swirling pattern. Commonly used as the end papers or... [more]
- First Edition
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- morocco
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