Description: The Orchard Keeper Cormac McCarthy 1965 1st Edition 1st Printing w Dust Jacket! : The Orchard Keeper Written by Cormac McCarthy Published by: Random House Printed in: 1965 First edition First Printing ----- Features ----- · Original red boards with Gilt Lettering · Stated First edition · The book comes with its rare original dust jacket Condition The book is in good condition. This is an exlibrary book with several stamp marks and a bookplate in the rear. There is a tape mark to the top and bottom of the front and rear cover. The pages are clean and free of foxing. The book comes with its rare original dustjacket. The jacket is in good condition. It is missing a piece of its bottom rear edge, as shown above. It is not price clipped. The book is a stated first edition, printed by Random House in 1965. A rare first edition of McCarthy's classic work. Synopsis The Orchard Keeper is the first novel by the American novelist Cormac McCarthy. It won the 1966 William Faulkner Foundation Award for notable first novel.The Orchard Keeper is set during the inter-war period in and around the hamlet of Red Branch, a small, isolated mountain community in Tennessee. The story revolves around three characters: Uncle Arthur Ownby, an isolated woodsman, who lives beside a rotting apple orchard; John Wesley Rattner, a young mountain boy; and Marion Sylder, an outlaw and bootlegger. ---------- About the Author---------- Cormac McCarthy (born July 20, 1933) is an American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter. He has written ten novels, spanning the southern gothic, western, and post-apocalyptic genres. He won the Pulitzer Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction for The Road (2006). His 2005 novel No Country for Old Men was adapted as a 2007 film of the same name, which won four Academy Awards, including Best Picture. For All the Pretty Horses (1992), he won both the U.S. National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award. All the Pretty Horses, The Road, and Child of God have also been adapted as motion pictures. Blood Meridian (1985) was among Time magazine's list of 100 best English-language books published between 1923 and 2005[4] and placed joint runner-up in a poll taken in 2006 by The New York Times of the best American fiction published in the last 25 years. Literary critic Harold Bloom named him as one of the four major American novelists of his time, alongside Don DeLillo, Thomas Pynchon and Philip Roth, and called Blood Meridian "the greatest single book since Faulkner's As I Lay Dying". In 2010, The Times ranked The Road first on its list of the 100 best fiction and non-fiction books of the past 10 years. ---------- Return Policy----------If you are unsatisfied with your purchase for any reason, a FULL refund will be issued so long as I am notified within 14 days after you receive your purchase. The buyer is responsible for return shipping costs. A great chance to own a rare first edition of McCarthy's classic work. If you have any questions or you want more pictures please feel free to email. Overseas bidders only Paypal accepted Images sell! Get Supersized Images & Free Image HostingCreate your brand with Auctiva's Customizable Templates. Attention Sellers - Get Templates Image Hosting, Scheduling at Auctiva.com.
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