The Orchard Keeper

by McCarthy, Cormac

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.

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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.

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New York: Random House, 1965. First edition of the author's rare first book. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Cormac McCarthy on the title page in a contemporary hand. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with some light wear to the extremities. Jacket design by Muriel Nasser. Books signed by McCarthy are uncommon, especially his earlier novels.… Read more about this item
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The First UK printing published by Andre Deutsch, London in 1966. The BOOK is in near Fine condition. The covers are clean and the gilt titling remains bright. A hint of pushing at the spine tips and a little spotting to the upper text-block. Free from inscriptions. The WRAPPER is complete and is in Very Good++ or better condition. A… Read more about this item
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New York: Random House, 1965. First Edition. McCarthy's first book, set during the inter-War period within a small, isolated town in Eastern Tennessee. The book won the Faulkner Foundation Award for Best First Novel of the Year, and while it was successful enough to go into a second printing, only around 3,000 copies were sold in total. This copy… Read more about this item
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(London): Andre Deutsch, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/very good +. First UK edition, first printing, octavo size, 250 pp., signed by Cormac McCarthy. Cormac McCarthy (born Charles Joseph McCarthy, Jr., in 1933), is acknowledged by many as one of the greatest contemporary American writers. His first novel, "The Orchard Keeper", won a 1966 William Faulkner Foundation Award… Read more about this item
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New York: Random House, 1965. First edition of the author's rare first book. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Cormac McCarthy on the front free endpaper. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with some light wear to the extremities. Jacket design by Muriel Nasser. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box made by the Harcourt… Read more about this item
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New York: Random House, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/near fine. First printing, octavo size, 251 pp., signed by Cormac McCarthy. Cormac McCarthy (born Charles Joseph McCarthy, Jr., in 1933), is acknowledged by many as one of the greatest contemporary American writers. His first novel, "The Orchard Keeper", won a 1966 William Faulkner Foundation Award for notable first… Read more about this item
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New York: Ballantine Books. Fine with no dust jacket. 1969. First Edition; First Printing. Softcover. First paperback edition of the author's FIRST book. SIGNED by Cormac McCarthy on title page. Fine in mass market-size pictorial printed wrappers. Considering McCarthy's reluctance to sign books, it would seem highly unlikely a fragile paperback of this vintage would turn up… Read more about this item
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