New York: Random House, 1968. First edition. A Fine copy in Near Fine dust jacket. Book with some faint toning to endpapers, otherwise an excellent example. Dust jacket with two short tears to the edges of the front panel, and a bit of toning to flaps, but presenting very well.

Cormac McCarthy’s second novel after his William Faulkner Foundation Award-winning debut The Orchard Keeper (1965), Outer Dark follows the story of a brother and sister who commit incest and their subsequent wanderings through Appalachia. “There is not a page of this novel which does not depict swift and significant action. Nor does Mr. McCarthy waste a single word on his character's thoughts. With total objectivity he describes what they do and records their speech. Such discipline comes not only from mastery over words but from an understanding wise enough and compassionate enough to dare tell so abysmally dark a story” (contemporary New York Times review). Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. (Item #8155)