No Country For Old Men

New York: Knopf, (2005). First edition, 1st printing. 8vo. 309 pp. Original black boards, stamped in gold, in original unclipped ($24.95) dust-jacket. Mild edge wear, particular to spine ends, corners, tips. Handling and shelf wear, with rubbing, surface nicks and light wrinkles. Protected in archival mylar. Book is moderately tight, square and firm. Mild handling, shelf wear present to panels. Light curling to spine ends, rubbing to corners, a few small bumps to panel edges. Interior clean and unmarked. Signed, loose sheet laid in. The sheet came from mis-cut, unfinished sheets intended for the signed editions, but were discarded.

Dust Jacket: Near Fine

Hardcover: Near Fine

“No Country for Old Men is a 2005 novel by American author Cormac McCarthy, who had originally written the story as a screenplay. The story occurs in the vicinity of the Mexico–United States border in 1980 and concerns an illegal drug deal gone awry in the Texas desert back country. Owing to the novel's origins as a screenplay, the novel has a simple writing style that differs from McCarthy's earlier novels. The book was adapted into a 2007 Coen brothers film of the same name, which won four Academy Awards, including Best Picture. The title of the novel comes from the first line of the 1926 poem "Sailing to Byzantium" by W. B. Yeats.”