A VERY LIMITED EDITION – CORMAC McCARTHY'S UNCOLLECTED SHORT STORIES

 

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NEVER COLLECTED, AND NOW LARGELY FORGOTTEN:

THE FIRST PUBLISHED FICTION BY CORMAC McCARTHY

Wake for Susan

A Drowning Incident

TWO SHORT STORIES PRESENTED IN MATCHING CHAPBOOKS

A LIMITED EDITION OF 150 NUMBERED SETS

Long before The Road, Blood Meridian and No Country for Old Men, Cormac McCarthy wrote two short stories.

'Wake for Susan' and 'A Drowning Incident' were published in October 1959 and March 1960 respectively, in the literary magazine of his alma mater, the University of Tennessee. The stories were his first published fiction, and provide a vivid glimpse of what was to come... Never collected, and largely forgotten, they are now brought back into print in this set of two matching chapbooks. 

A strictly limited, never-to-be-reprinted edition of 150 hand-numbered sets for sale.

A5 format, 20pp and 16pp, printed on uncoated stock, including a cover printed on Rives Shetland paper. 

Each chapbook also includes a tipped-in frontispiece, printed on silk paper stock, featuring a photograph from the archives of the Library of Congress, selected to evoke a location in each story.

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Our previous limited editions have all sold out, so don't miss out on this one...

The Slave Race, featuring Philip K. Dick's first SF tale (not in his Collected Stories), sold out in a matter of days (details here).

Our two Lawrence of Arabia titles (see details here and here), were described by the T. E. Lawrence Society as "a very beautiful publication" and "a valuable piece of ephemera for your collection". 

The Ghost of the Private Theatricals, a newly discovered tale of terror by Mary Shelley, the creator of Frankenstein (details here), was featured in the Times Literary Supplement, and also sold out quickly, with copies going to every continent except Antarctica!

Gods of Darkness, F. Scott Fitzgerald's never-previously-reprinted tale of a Lovecraftian witch cult (yes, you read that right) was an instant sell-out (see here).

The 50th anniversary souvenir An Appointment with The Wicker Man (see here) sold out quickly, as did the limited edition of a horror story by Sharon Gosling, Slow Progress (see here).

No copies remain of At the Door of Darkness, a forgotten episode from Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, deleted from the published version, and reconstructed from the original manuscript. Details here.

Finally, 250 numbered copies of Dracula's Forgotten Brides, a heavily illustrated monograph about Dorothy Tree, Geraldine Dvorak and Cornelia Thaw, the actresses who played opposite Bela Lugosi in Dracula (1931), quickly found new homes around the world. Details here.

You may be able to find copies of some of the above on the secondary market, where they tend to attract prices markedly higher than the original rrp...

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For the avoidance of doubt, please note that this publication, presenting material which is in the public domain in the USA, will only be sold to the USA and countries which follow the Rule of the Shorter Term. It has not been licenced, prepared, or approved by the estate of Cormac McCarthy.