Cormac McCarthy. Blood Meridian. Or The Evening Redness in the West. New York: Random House, [1985]. First edition. Octavo. [x], 337, [1]. Publisher's red boards backed in red cloth. Small crease to front free endpaper, interior otherwise bright and clean. Jacket top edge with light touches of wear, including one short closed tear at front panel, to which tape has been applied at verso, with resulting crease; very mild shelfwear to spine ends; flaps faintly toned. A bright, near fine copy. From the private collection of Stephen Lyle Boyd.