SIGNED FIRST EDITION FROM THE COLLECTION OF ANNIE DELISLE. MCCARTHY, CORMAC. 1933-2023. The Orch...

SIGNED FIRST EDITION FROM THE COLLECTION OF ANNIE DELISLE. MCCARTHY, CORMAC. 1933-2023. The Orchard Keeper. New York: Random House, 1965. 8vo. Publisher's green cloth-backed mauve paper boards, publisher's printed dust jacket, some foxing to endpapers, jacket heavily chipped and repaired with tape (both recto and verso), price clipped. Provenance: Anne Delisle. FIRST EDITION OF MCCARTHY'S AWARD-WINNING FIRST BOOK SIGNED ON THE TITLE PAGE BY MCCARTHY, FROM THE COLLECTION OF ANNIE DELISLE, HIS SECOND WIFE. McCarthy's first novel The Orchard Keeper was completed while he worked part-time as a mechanic in Chicago. Published in 1965, it won the 1966 PEN/Faulkner prize for best debut novel. At the same time, he won a 1965 fellowship from The American Academy of Arts and Letters and a 1966 grant from Rockefeller Foundation. The first he used to travel by boat to Ireland, meeting and falling in love with English singer Annie Delisle on board, and the second he used to travel around Europe, following Annie and her band. They ultimately landed in Ibiza, where he and Annie fell in with a group of expatriate artists, and Cormac completed his second novel, Outer Dark. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing