McCARTHY, Cormac. The Orchard Keeper. New York, 1965. 8o. Original green quarter-cloth and red boards, gilt-lettered, dust jacket (chipping to ends of spine panel, three tape repairs on verso reinforcing lower spine panel with slight discoloration, lower end of front flap and short tear to upper joint). FIRST EDITION of author's first book published 25 years before McCarthy's All the Pretty Horses won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award.