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196871258New York: Random House 1968. First edition first printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Signed by Cormac McCarthy in black ink on the half-title page.<br /> <br /> 242 pp. Octavo 21 cm. Publisher's turquoise cloth and grey paper-covered boards stamped in black silver blue. Publisher's black topstain. Black dust jacket with white green and orange typography designed by Muriel Nasser. First printing statement on the copyright page. Dust jacket is price-clipped and has the "9/68" code at the front flap’s bottom-right.<br /> <br /> A Near Fine unread copy clean and square. The black topstain is lightly faded. The price-clipped dust jacket is Very Good with just a tiny closed tear measuring less than 1cm at the bottom edge of the front panel and one very small dark stain on the spine. A nice copy. Signed by the notoriously reclusive author. From the library of the late Santa Fe bookseller Nicholas Potter. Throughout a friendship spanning forty years Potter’s bookstore served as a frequent destination for McCarthy where the two shared a rapport rooted in their mutual appreciation of literature art music and history. This volume represents a vital fragment of that connection.<br /> <br /> The first printing of Outer Dark consisted of a run of 5000 copies and was the only printing of the first edition of this work. The book was a commercial failure upon its release selling less than 3500 copies.<br /> <br /> Set in purgatorial turn-of-the-century Appalachia Outer Dark is McCarthy’s second novel distilling his Southern Gothic style which he would continue to explore in his two subsequent novels Child of God and Suttree. The narrative utilizes an archaic rhythmic prose to deliver a wandering tale—a harrowing meditation on nihilism. Its publication cemented McCarthy as a singular prophetic stylist distinguished from many of his more experimental postmodernist contemporaries through a mastery of the macabre and the mythic. Random House hardcover
196571251New York: Random House 1965. Second printing of the first edition in the first issue dust jacket. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Inscribed by Cormac McCarthy in black ink on the half-title page to Santa Fe bookseller Nicholas Potter: "For Nicholas All the very best Cormac." <br /> <br /> 246 pp. Octavo 21 cm. Publisher's green cloth and light burgundy paper-covered boards stamped in gilt red and blind. Publisher's green topstain. White dust jacket with red and black typography designed by Muriel Nasser. Second printing clearly stated on the copyright page. First issue dust jacket with "$4.95" price intact at top-front flap and "5/65" code at the bottom-right. <br /> <br /> A Near Fine copy the text block is clean square and seemingly unread throughout. The green topstain is lightly faded and the paper at the fore-edges of the boards show bits of abrasion. The dust jacket is Very Good gently sunned at the spine and showing light overall surface soiling and minor edgewear including a short split beginning at the top-front flap fold and tiny chips at the spine head and the top-right corner of the front panel. An attractive copy with an intimate association. A significant association copy warmly inscribed by the notoriously reclusive author to his long-time friend the late Santa Fe bookseller Nicholas Potter. Throughout a friendship spanning forty years Potter’s bookstore served as a frequent destination for McCarthy where the two shared a rapport rooted in their mutual appreciation of literature art music and history. This volume represents a vital fragment of that connection; McCarthy who famously avoided public life inscribed most of his published works to Potter.<br /> <br /> The second printing of The Orchard Keeper consisted of a small run of only 750 copies. It has been noted that surplus first-issue dust jackets were used for this printing; these were frequently price-clipped to accommodate the second printing’s increased $6.95 price. The present example is notably not price-clipped retaining the original $4.95 price.<br /> <br /> Set in a remote rural Tennessee community between the World Wars The Orchard Keeper is McCarthy’s debut novel inaugurating a cycle of four Southern Gothic works with Outer Dark Child of God and Suttree to follow. The narrative explores the forces of modern civilization as they encroach upon older more rugged ways of living. Upon its release the novel earned McCarthy immediate critical acclaim and comparisons to the likes of William Faulkner. Random House hardcover
71333New York: Alfred A. Knopf 2022. First editions first printings in publisher's slipcase. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. From the library of the late Santa Fe bookseller Nicholas Potter a long-time friend of Cormac McCarthy. Both volumes are signed by the author on publisher’s tipped-in pages: The Passenger in blue ink and Stella Maris in black ink. Laid into the first volume are two small memo notes in Potter’s hand providing a record of the set's rarity: "This is one of the two copies of the boxed signed edition that Dorothy Massey proprietor of Santa Fe’s Collected Works Bookstore got in the "lottery" for them. Collected Works was one of hundreds of bookstores that tried to order them. Probably fewer than 500 were signed. Dorothy gave it to me."<br /> <br /> 383; 189 pp. Two octavo volumes 24 cm. Publisher’s blue and red paper-covered boards respectively; titles gilt-stamped to spines. First edition clearly stated on the copyright pages. In the original illustrated dust jackets with prices and date codes intact. Housed in the publisher's decorative pictorial paper-covered slipcase with the original paper label tipped-on the rear panel. All elements are Near Fine; bright square clean copies showing only the faintest hints of shelfwear or handling. This set documents a direct connection within the Santa Fe book trade having been gifted from Dorothy Massey to Nicholas Potter. The signatures are provided on the publisher’s tipped-in pages with provenance established by a laid-in note in Potter’s hand. This note identifies the volumes as a gift from Massey proprietor of Collected Works establishing a professional association that distinguishes this set from typical signed issues. It stands as a physical record of the professional network and relationships that supported McCarthy’s work in New Mexico for four decades.<br /> <br /> Alfred A. Knopf published The Passenger on October 25 2022 followed by Stella Maris on December 6 2022. This slipcased boxed set was released concurrently with the second volume and contains both first-edition hardcovers. These signed sets were distributed via a highly restricted "lottery" to select bookstores; it is estimated that only 500 such sets were produced. As McCarthy declined public appearances for these final titles these tipped-in pages represent rare "officially" signed copies of his final works. McCarthy passed away in June 2023—scarcely six months after the final volume's release—marking these as the last works published during his lifetime.<br /> <br /> Conceived as a profound late-career diptych The Passenger and Stella Maris constitute Cormac McCarthy’s final novels. The first volume follows Bobby Western a salvage diver contending with his father’s legacy on the Manhattan Project and the suicide of his sister Alicia. Its companion Stella Maris is a psychiatric transcript recording Alicia’s own struggle with mathematics and hallucination. Eschewing conventional linear plotting the pairing serves as a rigorous inquiry into the "unshareable" nature of reality and the constraints of human knowledge. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover
71330London: Picador 2006. First U.K. edition first printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. One of only 200 copies issued with a bookplate signed in black ink by Cormac McCarthy mounted to the title page. These bookplates were signed specifically for this first Picador edition and distributed via the British retailer Waterstones. From the library of the late Santa Fe bookseller and McCarthy associate Nicholas Potter. Laid in is Potter's original invoice and purchase receipt from Nicholas & Helen Burrows booksellers Surrey/London UK dated 20-Nov-06.<br /> <br /> 241 pp. Octavo 24 cm. Publisher’s black paper-covered boards with silver stamping to the spine. Original pictorial dust jacket with the "£16.99" price intact. A bright square and clean copy. The inclusion of the signed bookplate at the title page is notably scarce. A short note in Potter's hand is also laid in: "w/signed Bookplate tipped in. October 2006. Cormac told me he would not sign this book title so it is rare signed even if it is on a bookplate." Throughout a friendship spanning forty years Nicholas Potter’s Santa Fe bookstore served as a frequent destination for McCarthy where the two shared a rapport rooted in their mutual appreciation of literature art music and history. This volume represents a vital fragment of that connection.<br /> <br /> Pulitzer Prize-winning and austere The Road is a harrowing odyssey and a testament to paternal devotion. Set in an ash-covered wasteland the narrative depicts a father and son navigating a landscape of predatory cannibals among the ruins of civilization. Refining the sparse prose of his late career into minimalist parable McCarthy captures the endurance of hope in the face of total environmental collapse. The work was adapted into a film directed by John Hillcoat and starring Viggo Mortensen. Picador hardcover
71342Hopewell NJ: The Ecco Press 1994. First edition first printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Signed by Cormac McCarthy in blue ink on the half-title page. <br /> <br /> 133 pp. Octavo 22 cm. Publisher's black cloth and grey paper-covered boards with blind-stamped design on the front and silver titles on the spine. First edition clearly stated on the copyright page. In the original dust jacket designed by Chip Kidd with the "$19.95" price and "9404" code intact on the front flap.<br /> <br /> A Near Fine unread and clean copy. The rear board is bound slightly askew a minor binder's aberration. The dust jacket is likewise Near Fine showing only very light surface rubbing. A nice copy. Signed by the notoriously reclusive author. From the library of the late Santa Fe bookseller Nicholas Potter. Throughout a friendship spanning forty years Potter’s bookstore served as a frequent destination for McCarthy where the two shared a rapport rooted in their mutual appreciation of literature art music and history. This volume represents a vital fragment of that connection.<br /> <br /> Written in the mid-1970s The Stonemason remained unpublished for nearly twenty years until its release by Ecco Press in 1994. The professional relationship began when Ecco founder Daniel Halpern reached out to McCarthy via a letter to his Tennessee home. This collaboration eventually established Ecco as a primary publisher for McCarthy’s dramatic and poetic work.<br /> <br /> Set in Louisville Kentucky the work meditates on craft and heritage. McCarthy’s rhythmic dialogue reflects the precision of masonry elevating manual labor to a spiritual discipline. Prioritizing thematic architecture over narrative the play measures the permanence of stone against the fragility of family structures. The Ecco Press hardcover
201071344London: Picador 2010. First U.K. edition first printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 142 pp. Octavo 20.5 cm. Publisher's black paper-covered boards with gilt-stamped titles on the spine. Black endpapers. In the original illustrated dust jacket designed by David Pearson with the "£9.99" price intact. A nice bright clean copy. From the library of the late Santa Fe bookseller Nicholas Potter. Throughout a friendship spanning forty years Potter’s bookstore served as a frequent destination for McCarthy; the two shared a rapport rooted in a mutual appreciation of literature art music and history. While this copy is neither signed nor marked it originates from Potter's collection. McCarthy who famously avoided public life inscribed most of his published works to Potter.<br /> <br /> Set in a sparse New York apartment the work is a claustrophobic dialogue sparked by a thwarted suicide. With McCarthy’s prose stripped to its essential core the play pits existential despair against faith in a high-stakes dialectic for the soul. Picador hardcover
193370034Edinburgh: John Grant 1933. New Edition. Hardcover. Good. 442; 458; 355pp. Thick royal octavos 24 cm Navy blue cloth over boards with a gilt stamped title on the spine and a blind stamped vignette on the front board. Top edge gilt; other edges deckled. 1/2" closed tear at head of backstrip of volume 1. Minor stain to front board of this volume as well. Hatching to approximately a dozen pages in volume 1 mostly in pencil. As is. Some plates detached. With only one map at the rear of volume 3 the following map IS present: "Map of the United States Showing Indian Reservations". May require extra postage due to the number of volumes. Ex-libris novelist and historian of the Old West James D. Horan with his bookplate on the front pastedown of volume 2. By the authors of "The McKenney-Hall Picture Gallery." A new edition edited by Frederick Webb Hodge. John Grant hardcover
8046London 1897. Sale the 28th January at two o'clock precisely At the Rooms of PUTTICK & SIMPSON 47 Leicester Square. Printed by S. and J. Brawn 13 Gate Street High Holborn W.C. 8vo: 21 pp. Stitched and unbound. Tastefully printed on good watermarked laid paper. Aged and with the covers grubby. Priced and named to lot 113 and with a few of the other lots priced in pencil. A slip dimensions 2.5 x 15.5 cm has been cut away from the beginning of the sale pp.3-4 resulting in the loss of the entries for three lots 12 13 and 14. Scarce with no copy listed on COPAC or WorldCat. See Image. London, 1897. Sale the 28th, January, at two o'clock precisely, At the Rooms of PUTTICK & SIMPSON, 47, Leicester Square. [Printe unknown
198070019Santa Fe and Albuquerque NM: School of American Research; University of New Mexico Press 1980. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. SIGNED. 379pp. Quarto 26.5 cm Natural beige cloth over boards. In the dust jacket with the price in the top fore-edge corner of the front inside flap torn out. The jacket shows pronounced rubbing and has sporadic small closed and open tears in the edges. One of the closed tears along the top edge of the front panel has been repaired with a short piece of tape. From the library of Helen Greene Blumenschein with her bookplates on the front endpaper. Helen Greene Blumenschein 1909-1989 was an artist who was active in New Mexico and New York and who was known for landscape and pueblo scenes. She was the daughter of famous New Mexico artist Ernest Blumenschein. A comprehensive study of carvings and paintings on stone by Native Americans surveys the rock art of Utah Arizona New Mexico northern Mexico and West Texas from 2000 B.C. to the nineteenth century.<br /> <br /> Inscribed by Schaafsma to Helen on the half title page: "To Helen with / all best wishes- / Polly Schaafsma." Additionally inscribed by the book's photographer Karl Kernberger. School of American Research; University of New Mexico Press hardcover
8288Undated. 'Truslove & Hanson Ltd 6b Sloane Street London S.W. and at 153 Oxford Street W.'. 16mo 14 x 11 cm 8 leaves. Unpaginated. Unbound pamphlet stitched with red thread. Printed on cream paper. Good: lightly-aged and with bumping at foot of spine. A scarce piece of book trade ephemera the only copy on COPAC being at the National Library of Scotland. Text over four pages including the statement that 'The bookplates executed by Messrs. Truslove & Hanson are from designs by Mr. F. G. House.' Four full-page bookplate designs: one on cover with words 'Ex Libris' and three named: John Wilfred Hardy Mary D. Pinder and Herbert W. Plews. Fifth example tipped in on recto of second leaf 'Books are friends and what friends they are'. The firm's ornate armorial device with motto 'In libris felicitas' is on the reverse of the last leaf. The full-page examples and device all have blank reverses. Undated. 'Truslove & Hanson Ltd, 6b Sloane Street, London, S.W. and at 153 Oxford Street W.' unknown
196926257Switzerland: Editions du Griffon 1969. Hardcover. VG in G dust jacket. Oversize hardcover in black heather cloth minor wear clean and tightly bound. Contents clean with light age toning. Dust jacket show edge we4ar creasing to rear flap lightly soiled rear cover. From the collection of Mr. and Mrs Harry Lewis Winston with their name label on the front paste-down page and inscribed to them by the artist not the authors on the half-title page. Texts by Umbro Apollonio and Michel Tapié in Italian and French. With 80 black-and-white plates. Biographical and bibliographical information. 4to. Approx. 80 pp. No slipcase. NOTE: Mr. and Mrs. Harry Lewis Winston were prominent 20th-century Detroit-based art collectors known for their significant collection of modern art particularly Futurism. Harry a lawyer and Lydia Winston daughter of architect Albert Kahn curated a notable collection often exhibiting it in the 1950s-1960's. <br/><br/>Experienced full-time bookseller since 1994. Images may be added by request. Questions welcome. Editions du Griffon hardcover
177314417A Ward York sold by Robert Horsfield T Cadell in London & W Tesseyman York 1773 1773. Third edition. Hardcover. Good Plus. Contemporary full leather binding only light edge wear lower corners of both covers bumped front joint with superficial crack binding cords still taunt; rear joint show superficial wear -- overall a sound binding. Spine with five raised bands superficial leather cracking bright red leather label with still bright gilt impression. Front fly leaf worn text is unmarked bright paper very minor foxing. 294 pages plus Contents page. PROVENANCE: From paste down has Chippendale armorial bookplate of the original owner Robert Gorges Dobyns Yate esq. of Bromesberrow 1752-1785; who married Annabella Christiana Honywood in 1775 only daughter of William Honywood esq. of Malling Abbey in Kent. His name in hand written on the front flypaper "B. Yate. 1773. Below this is the signature of his wife with the date of 1785 the year of her husband's death. Another ink note further below I am unable to read. The title page has inked initial on the upper margin. <br /> <br/><br/>Questions welcome. Images can be made upon request. A Ward, York, sold by Robert Horsfield, T Cadell in London & W Tesseyman, York, 1773 hardcover
195625116London: Cassell & Company LTD. 1956-1957. Hardcover. Near Fine in Good dust jackets. NF/Good. First two volumes only as acquired both have the signature of Edith Lewis on the front flyleaves who was a magazine editor and domestic partner of writer Willa Cather for 40 years then as her executor. Red cloth volumes with just light shelf wear clean bright gilt stamping to spines tightly bound unmarked. Dust jackets are worn especially volume 1. Bought from The Holiday Bookshop of NYC with seller's tag in back of each book. The series was published in 4 volumes but I have just the two. Curiously they appear to have been bought separately with Lewis' signature in volume 1 dated January 1957 and volume 2 dated December 1956. Volume 1 is a first edition; volume 2 is a second printing. <br/><br/>Experienced full-time bookseller since 1994. Images may be added by request. Questions welcome. Cassell & Company LTD. hardcover
