No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy - Numbered Edition

Cormac McCarthy’s No Country for Old Men is a stark meditation on violence, fate, and moral reckoning, played out against the desolate borderlands of Texas and Mexico. At once a relentless thriller and a haunting elegy, it confronts the ties of love, blood, and duty that shape lives—and the brutal forces that unravel them.

The story begins when Llewelyn Moss, while hunting along the Rio Grande, comes upon the aftermath of a massacre: dead men, a cache of heroin, and over two million dollars in cash. Taking the money sets into motion a remorseless pursuit, led by the terrifying Anton Chigurh, a killer who decides life and death with the flip of a coin. As Moss struggles to protect himself and his wife from those who hunt him, Sheriff Bell—aging, weary, and disillusioned—watches the violence escalate and realizes he is powerless against a new breed of brutality that defies the old order.

Published on July 19, 2005, No Country for Old Men is Cormac McCarthy’s ninth novel. Upon its publication, the Washington Post called it, “profoundly disturbing and gorgeously rendered” while the Houston Chronicle hailed McCarthy as “nothing less than our greatest living author… No Country for Old Men is a cause for celebration.” The New York Times Book Review raved, “A narrative that rips along like hell on wheels, in a race with the devil on a stage as big as Texas.” Time magazine praised the novel as “expertly staged” and claimed, “It feels like a genuine diagnosis of the post-millennial malady, a scary illumination of the oncoming darkness.”

In 2007, the Coen brothers adapted the novel into a movie of the same name, which won four Academy Awards, including Best Picture.

The limited edition of No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy is presented in three states: Lettered, Numbered and Artist editions.

NUMBERED EDITION

• 6” x 9” trim size.
• 288 Pages.
• Limited to 250 copies.
• Signed by Joseph Zbukvic.
• Ten color illustrations by world-renowned and multi-award-winning watercolor artist, Joseph Zbukvic.
  
• Full leather binding with the title blind debossed into the leather, across the entire cover using a heated die creating a deep, branded impression that darkens the surface and enhances the natural grain. 
• Leather is a distinctive vegetable-tanned leather from the renowned Badalassi Carlo Tannery in Tuscany, Italy known as “Pueblo.” 
• Designed by award-winning designer Jason Dewinetz, the text pages are set in Monotype Garamont and printed letterpress by Scott Vile on his Heidelberg cylinder press in Buxton, Maine on Neenah Cotton paper. 
  
• The printing includes three passes through the press on the title page spread, and two passes on the half title, title, and chapter numbers. 
• Endsheets are Napura Khepera.
• Head and tail bands are handmade with leather. 
  
• Housed in a clamshell enclosure covered in Dubletta cloth with velour lined trays. 
  
• Fold-out of the Artist edition dust jacket illustration by Joseph Zbukvic is included in this state.
  
• Bookmark with all pre-orders.

Published editions may differ slightly from mockups and prototype designs.
Illustrations © 2024 by Joseph Zbukvic.