Cormac McCarthy The Gardener’s Son First Edition 1996 Ecco Press

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Before No Country for Old Men and long before the cultural afterlife of The Road, there was The Gardener’s Son — McCarthy’s first produced screenplay, originally written for PBS in the 1970s and later published in book form in 1996. Set in a South Carolina mill town at the turn of the 20th century, it captures the industrial tensions, moral severity, and fatalism that would define his later fiction.

For collectors, this title occupies a fascinating corner of McCarthy’s canon: not a novel, but a script — spare, visual, already cinematic. Issued during the height of the Border Trilogy era (All the Pretty Horses appears proudly on the jacket), this first edition has become increasingly desirable as McCarthy’s body of work continues to solidify into American literary bedrock.

A sharp copy for the serious McCarthy collector.