THE ORCHARD KEEPER - DAVID MADDEN'S EXTENSIVELY ANNOTATED REVIEW COPY
$9,500 · Offered by Captain Ahab's Rare Books
First edition
New York: Random House, 1965. First Edition. McCarthy's first book, set during the inter-War period within a small, isolated town in Eastern Tennessee. The book won the Faulkner Foundation Award for Best First Novel of the Year, and while it was successful enough to go into a second printing, only around 3,000 copies were sold in total. This copy belonged to Tennessee author, critic, and Southern fiction scholar David Madden,
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