New York: Random House, (1965). First edition, 1st printing. 8vo. 246 pp. Original half teal cloth over red paper-covered boards, stamped in gold, red, in original unclipped ($4.95) dust-jacket. Mild handling to jacket, trivial edge wear. Touch of spine fade, better than typically seen. Faint droplet of soiling evidence to spine foot. Presents as fine. Book is tight square and firm. Light curling to spine ends, trivial surface and handling wear, if any. Presents as fine. Interior is clean and unmarked.

Dust Jacket: Near Fine

Hardcover: Near Fine

“The Orchard Keeper is the first novel by the American novelist Cormac McCarthy. It won the 1966 William Faulkner Foundation Award for notable first novel. In 1965, critic Orville Prescott argued that McCarthy’s extensive use of Faulknerian literary devices and mannerisms in The Orchard Keeper is “exasperating”, though also wrote, “Mr. McCarthy is expert in generating an emotional climate, in suggesting instead of in stating, in creating a long succession of brief, dramatic scenes described with flashing visual impact. He may neglect the motivation of some of his characters. He may leave some doubt as to what is going on now. But he does write with torrential power.”