Books

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005. First edition of this “harrowing, propulsive drama… about a stone-cold killer, a small-town sheriff, and an average Joe” (New York Times). Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Cormac McCarthy and signed three times by jacket artist Chip Kidd; on the front panel, below McCarthy's signature and on the rear jacket flap. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Chip Kidd. "Cormac McCarthy has said, in interviews, that there is ‘no such thing as life without bloodshed,’ and that the novelist’s proper occupation is with death. His work gives eloquent witness to this vision McCarthy is a colossally gifted writer" (The New Yorker). Basis for the Coen brothers' 2007 film with Tommy Lee Jones, Josh Brolin, and Javier Bardem that won four Oscars, including Best Picture.

No Country for Old Men is a novel by American author Cormac McCarthy. The book was first published in 2005, and it takes place along the United States–Mexico border in 1980, revolving around an illegal drug deal gone awry in the Texas desert.