A travel through a McCarthy first editions collection

“MERIDIANO DI SANGUE”, THE FIRST ITALIAN TRANSLATION OF BLOOD MERIDIAN

The front cover and spine of “Meridiano di sangue”

Blood Meridian (Meridiano di sangue), first Italian edition

Einaudi, Torino, 1996

First Italian edition, only printing with complete numberlines from 0 to 6 and from 1996 to 1999 on a colophon page bound after the contents page at the end of the book. Hardcover, 22 x 14,3 cm., 343 numbered pages. Publisher’s original greenish grey cloth lettered in black on spine. White dustjacket lettered in black with an illustration from a photograph by Douglas Kent Hal on the front panel and a blurb by Fernanda Pivano and the price of “Lire 32000” on the back one. Translation by Raul Montanari.

CONDITION: unread and fine in a fine dustjacket.

Published September 30, 1996 in a print run of 10,000 copies.


Up to September 20, 2023 the book hadn’t had further hardcover printings.

The text’s last page with the numberlines which identify the first edition, first printing


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