NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005. First edition. Fine in very good jacket.. First printing of McCarthy's brutal modern classic, a beautiful copy. McCarthy's stunning Western started life as a screenplay, was rewritten as a novel, and was ultimately adapted into one of the more stunning Coen Brothers films of the last twenty years. Harold Bloom, unable to discern a satisfying moral argument in its wanton coin-flipping, didn't like it, which can only be taken as a glowing recommendation. A pristine copy of this fully realized masterwork of bleakness and pitiless doom. 8.25'' x 5.5''. Original black paper boards, gilt-lettered spine. In original unclipped ($24.95) red pictorial dust jacket designed by Chip Kidd. Fore-edge machine deckle. [8], 309, [3] pages. Jacket front panel with a couple areas of small indentations, only just visible under mylar. Else bright, clean, sharp, and tight.