McCarthy, Cormac (1994) ‘The Crossing’, US signed first edition with rock solid provenance

Cormac McCarthy (1994) ‘The Crossing‘, US first edition, first printing, published by Alfred A. Knopf. Signed by the author on a blank tipped in page by the publisher.

Condition: a fine copy.

Provenance: From the Dr Philip Murray collection. Most likely McCarthy or the publisher sent the book to Murray as a gift since Cormac and Philip had regular correspondence and visited each other.

‘The Crossing’ is Cormac’s seventh novel and second in the Border Trilogy following ‘All the Pretty Horses’ which won the U.S. National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award and catapulted McCarthy into a literary superstar.