McCarthy, Cormac (1998) ‘Cities of the Plain’, US deluxe signed limited edition

Cormac McCarthy (1998) ‘Cities of the Plain‘, US signed deluxe limited edition, published by B.E. Trice. One of only 50 copies of which this is no. 42.

Condition: a near fine copy with a few faint foxing sprinkles on the page block. Internally clean with no bookplates, no prevopis owner’s names etc. Beautiful production: bound in pale salmon and maroon marlbed paper boards, quarter leather spine and board tips, raised bands on spine, black tabs, dark brown end papers, in publisher’s full cloth slipcase.

Provenance: From the Dr Philip Murray collection.

‘Cities of the Plain’ is Cormac’s eighth novel and third in the Border Trilogy.  ‘All the Pretty Horses’, the first Border Trilogy novel, won the U.S. National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award and catapulted McCarthy into a literary superstar.