First Edition Points and Criteria for Outer Dark
Year Published: 1968
Author Last Name: McCarthy
Author First Name: Cormac
Publisher: Random House
Original Price: $4.95
Pages: 242
The first edition of this nice read was published by Random House in 1968. It was 242 pages long, and the original retail price was $4.95. The first edition can be identified by the following criteria: FIRST PRINTING is stated on the copyright page. Boards are blue-gray with light blue cloth spine and blue-green top stain. Back dust jacket flap has a photo of the author. Photos courtesy of Dan Baranow.

Picture of the 1968 first edition dust jacket for Outer Dark.

Picture of the first edition copyright page for Outer Dark.

Picture of dust jacket where original $4.95 price is found for Outer Dark.

Picture of the back dust jacket for the first edition of Outer Dark.

Picture of the first edition Random House boards for Outer Dark.

This is the front and back dust jacket flaps for Outer Dark.


Other first edition points for books by Cormac McCarthy include: All the Pretty Horses, The Road, Blood Meridian, Child of God, No Country for Old Men, The Crossing, Cities of the Plain, Suttree, The Gardener's Son, The Stonemason, The Orchard Keeper.
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Other first edition points for books by Cormac McCarthy include: All the Pretty Horses, The Road, Blood Meridian, Child of God, No Country for Old Men, The Crossing, Cities of the Plain, Suttree, The Gardener's Son, The Stonemason, The Orchard Keeper.
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