NY, Random House, (1965). McCarthy's first book, which won a Faulkner Foundation Award for best first novel of the year. Although the book was successful enough to go into a second printing, fewer than 3000 copies were sold in total, and it was a quarter century before McCarthy's All the Pretty Horses won the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award and brought him recognition beyond the small, passionate circle of devotees who had been aware of him over the years. This book is notorious for several flaws: the front flap tends to detach at the fold from excessive scoring in the bindery, and the white jacket is susceptible to yellowing and soiling. This copy is fine in a fine dust jacket, without any of the aforementioned flaws. The top edge stain is still bright green, unlike any other copy we've seen. A beautiful copy of an important first book. From the collection of Bruce Kahn. [#911068] SOLD