Books

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 signed or inscribed. Yet here it is in virtually pristine condition. (B) ; 4 1/4" X 7"; 198 pages.

The Orchard Keeper was Cormac McCarthy's first novel, a work of rich, poetic prose, telling the intertwining tales of a rural trio trapped by acts of violence and a mysteriously connected orchard.