SUTTREE by McCarthy, Cormac - 1979

New York: Random House, 1979. First Edition. McCarthy's semi-autobiographical fourth novel set in the early 1950's, following Cornelius Suttree, who has repudiated his life of privilege to spend his life as a fisherman on the Tennessee River. Though now widely considered one of McCarthy's most serious and ambitious works, drawing comparisons to Ulysses, Cannery Row, and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, fewer than 3,000 copies of the first printing were sold at the time of publication prior to being remaindered. First Printing. Octavo (21.25cm); black cloth and pale yellow paper-covered boards, with titling and author's initials stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; dustjacket; [viii],[3],4-471,[1]pp. Touch of offsetting to pastedowns from binders glue, some trivial wear to lower front board edge, else a fresh, very Near Fine copy, without the remainder mark. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $12.95), lightly shelfworn and gently spine-sunned, with a handful of tears and attendant creases, discreetly mended on verso, with some minimal touch-up on recto; Very Good.