Random House, New York, 1965. First UK Edition, 246pp. Hardcover: VERY GOOD. Dust Wrapper: NEAR FINE. Pages are crisp and clean; slight pushing to the spine, name written neatly in pen on endpaper. Minor rubbing bumping to the boards, with faint mark on top front. Unclipped wrapper is bright, with modest chipping and wear.

The Orchard Keeper is the first novel by the American novelist Cormac McCarthy and won the 1966 William Faulkner Foundation Award for notable first novel. The novel is set during the inter-war period in and around the hamlet of Red Branch, a small, isolated mountain community in Tennessee. The story revolves around three characters: Uncle Arthur Ownby, an isolated woodsman, who lives beside a rotting apple orchard; John Wesley Rattner, a young mountain boy; and Marion Sylder, an outlaw and bootlegger.