The Oasis

New York: Random House, 1949. 181pp. Stated 1st Printing. Black cloth. Clean in red and black printed unclipped dust jacket. DJ is lightly aged with a small piece missing from the bottom front corner.. 1st Printing. Cloth. Very Good+/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Random House, 1949. Author's second book. Very good (some light aging or browning on pastedowns; otherwise fine interior) in poor dust jacket (split into two pieces with most of spine gone with stained back panel, included primarily because of bright front panel and wonderful short bio of McCarthy on the rear panel, ending with "She can cook and… Read more about this item

THE OASIS in Horizon for February, 1949, first edition, vg+ in wraps as issued.

New York: Random House [1949], 1949. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. [8], 3-181, [5] pp. Black cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $2.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. The Mary McCarthy Society, "Fiction". A beautiful copy of this early work of McCarthy's: a satire of a community made up of middle-class Americans… Read more about this item

New York: Random House, 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Some browning to the outer page edges and endpages. Dustjacket is clipped, with some browning and a few short closed tears.

London: Horizon, 1949. Softcover. Fine. True first edition, Vol. XIX of the *Horizon Review*, edited by Cyril Connolly. Fine in very faintly sunned wrappers, with the original paper band reading "Winning Short Novel in 'Horizon's' Summer Competition.

Random House, 1949. First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Octavo. An unusually fine copy in a Brodart jacket cover.

New York: Random House, 1949. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. Narrow, faint stain on the edge of the front fly, near fine in very good dustwrapper with chips at the top corners of the front panel.

New York: Random House, 1949. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Slight toning on endpapers along the gutter, a bit of toning at the foot of the spine, near fine in a near fine dust jacket with light edgewear and toning on the spine.

New York: Random House [1949], 1949. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. [8], 3-181, [5] pp. Black cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $2.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. A Near Fine book with minor toning and foxing to the textblock and a faint smoky odor in a Near Fine dust… Read more about this item

Random House, 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 181 pages. The author's second novel. First edition (first printing). Near fine in a dust jacket with toning to spine and some edge wear.

New York: Random House, 1949. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. Light offsetting on rear endpapers, boards slightly rubbed, near fine in a very good dust jacket with a toned spine, and several nicks and tears with a chip at the corner of the rear flap.

New York: Random House, 1949. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition. About fine with small smudge on first page in very good toned dust jacket with a hint spine sunned and small nicks to the edges.

NY: Random House; (1949). First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Author's second novel. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. The book has some minor darkening to the page edges and the endpapers. The jacket is price clipped and slightly sunned on the spine. Tight and square.

New York: Random House, 1949. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Fine in just about fine dustwrapper with a tiny tear and a little soiling. A better than usual copy.

London: Horizon, 1949. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Octavo. McCarthy's short novel won the Horizon Summer Competition and was first published here. A superb copy.

NEW YORK NY: RANDOM HOUSE. F/VG+. PUB 1949. FIRST EDITION. HARDCOVER. D.J. HAS A SMALL BIT OF CORNER WEAR WITH SOME LIGHT SUNNING OF THESPINE PANEL, AND SOME LIGHT TANNING OF THE REAR PANEL. A VERY NICE COPY.. Keywords: NOVEL, INVISIBLE, ABCDEF.

NY: Random House, 1949. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good. 5 1/2 x 8 in. Black cloth with gilt spine lettering. Condition is VERY GOOD ; minor edge wear, covers clean, a bit dusty. Spine gilt faded. Binding tight and text clean, no markings. Politics. Stax.

London: Horizon, 1949. Paperback. pp. 75-152, wraps slightly soiled and chipped and browned along the spine. Complete issue, this appearance of the Oasis precedes the book appearance. "In The Oasis, Mary McCarthy's heroine is also momentarily doused in the sea of pragmatic experience and is likewise unable to substantiate a new orientation, returning at the end to the dream-world… Read more about this item

Random House, 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Octavo. A few small jacket edge chips, including a V chip on back. In Brodart jacket protector. Out of print and scarce early McCarthy. Binding is cloth.