NMLP P-005294 · Book-club / reprint tell · minted 2026-07-04

The Orchard Keeper

Cormac McCarthy · Random House · 1965

No US book-club edition of consequence; later Vintage and Ecco paperbacks lack the 'First Printing' statement and are clearly reprints. Beware ex-library and price-clipped jackets passed off as firsts.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Book-club / reprint tell NMLP P-005294 for "The Orchard Keeper" by Cormac McCarthy (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-005294, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).