Crossing by Mccarthy Cormac, Signed (23 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st edition, signed.

Condition: Fine in a fine jacket. Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First printing. Signed limited first edition of this second book in The Border Trilogy, which follows the harrowing coming of age of Billy and Boyd Parham in the deserts of New Mexico. Known for his "brutal and spare" narratives, Cormac McCarthy has been called "one of the greatest living novelists" (Cowley, THE GUARDIAN). THE CROSSING is the second book in McCarthy's Border Trilogy, which follows the lives and hardships of Billy and Boyd Parham as they discover themselves in rural New Mexico on the eve of WWII. Critically praised, with reservations (as Sara Mosle noted in THE NEW YORK TIMES, "the most complex and sympathetic female character in the trilogy may be a wolf"), McCarthy's bleakness of vision and his cascade of mythic imagery still hold great power. 8.5'' x 5.5''. Original black cloth-backed boards. Original unclipped ($23.00) color pictorial dust jacket. Red topstain, fore-edge machine deckle. 296 pages. Signed by McCarthy to limitation page. Trace toning here and there. Else sharp and clean. Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. Signed by Author(s).

Set of First Edition/First Printings of The Border Trilogy; All books in Fine condition housed in Near Fine to Fine dust jackets. All volumes SIGNED by the author to the half-title page (Cities signed to the 2nd half title page). A stunning set of this award winning and seminal trilogy from one of the great authors of the last century; scarce signed and in this condition as a set. "All the Pretty Horses" in Fine/Fine condition showing only slight rubbing to the spine foot, a very faint spotting to the jacket spine, and a slight smudge to CM's signature; "The Crossing" is in Fine condition with only a faint vertical rub to the front panel; "Cities of the Plain" in as new condition with no visible flaws. Overall, an exceptional set, rarely found with all volumes signed; a bucket list item for the McCarthy fan and a unique addition to any 20th century literature collection! Provenance: from the Sydney Boone collection, a prominent Houston collector of modern literature. No book remaindered, no book price clipped, no book ex-library; all books in protective sleeves and will ship carefully wrapped in a new sturdy box.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st Edition. Slight bumping to tips and slight fading to red top edge else fine in fine dust jacket. Volume Two of the Border Trilogy. Inscribed by McCarthy on the half title page. Inscribed copies much more uncommon then the signed limited editions. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Signed on the page after the ffep, inserted by the publisher. It says: One thousand copies of this signed first edition of The Crossing have been especially prepared for friends of the author and publisher. Underneath that is McCarthy's signature in black ink. No marking. Not price-clipped. Photos upon request. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Complete set of McCarthy's trilogy. All The Pretty Horses is a Near Fine hardcover in a Very Good dust jacket and is SIGNED by McCarthy on large bookplate affixed to the second page. Ninth Printing, printed in July of 1992. The jacket has no statement of the National Book Award that this book would eventually win. The book and is in great shape with little to no sign of aging or wear. The dust jacket is price-clipped, though outwardly bright and attractive. The Crossing and Cities on the Plain are both First Edition, First Printing, Near Fine hardcovers in Very Good dust jackets with only minor aging along the edges. Overall an attractive set with McCarthy's elusive signature. Signed by Author(s).

Chip Kidd (illustrator). Signed First Printing. A Fine example, signed to the publishers tipped-in limitation page after the FFEP. With the unfaded brown topstain. One of a number of 1000 copies signed for the publisher. In the Fine unclipped wrapper with the price of $23.00 to front flap top corner and a small ding to centre of spine. We are listing a large collection of Cormac's works including signed editions, proofs and Fine copies. Please ask if you cannot see what you are looking for. Now in removable Mylar. Cat. No. 00587.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First editions, first printings. Laid into the first volume is an Autograph Note Signed from Cormac McCarthy to Nicholas Potter: "Nicholas | Thank you for your very nice letter. I appreciated it and I'm glad that you liked the book. I was in Santa Fe very briefly a couple of months ago but you were not in. Hope to catch you next time. | Cormac." Each volume in the trilogy is signed or inscribed by McCarthy in black ink on the half-title page: All the Pretty Horses is inscribed "For Nicholas Potter | All the very best from | Your friend | Cormac McCarthy"; The Crossing is inscribed "For Nicholas | With all best wishes | Your friend | Cormac"; and Cities of the Plain is signed: "Cormac McCarthy." 301; 425; 291 pp. Three octavo volumes [22 cm]. Black cloth and paper-covered boards; titling and author initials gilt-stamped to spines and front covers. Publisher?s brown and red topstains to volumes 2 and 3; volume 1 unstained as issued. First edition clearly stated on each copyright page with no additional printings listed. All three original pictorial dust jackets present with prices intact. Housed in a custom nesting slipcase by Robert Wang of Denver, mirroring the dust jacket design. All three volumes and dust jackets are in uniformly Near Fine to Fine condition; bright, sharp, and square with only the faintest signs of handling. Significant association copies, with each volume inscribed or signed by the notoriously reclusive author to his long-time friend, the late Santa Fe bookseller Nicholas Potter. Throughout a friendship spanning forty years, Potter?s bookstore served as a frequent destination for McCarthy, where the two shared a rapport rooted in their mutual appreciation of literature, art, music, and history. Accompanied by the laid-in Autograph Note Signed, this set represents a vital fragment of that connection; McCarthy, who famously avoided public life, inscribed most of his published works to Potter. Prior to 1992, McCarthy?s commercial success was minimal; none of his previous novels sold more than 5000 copies in their first printings. The breakout success of All the Pretty Horses?which won both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award?transformed him into a mainstream literary icon. First print runs for the trilogy escalated dramatically, rising from 20,000 copies for the first volume to over 200,000 for the trilogy's conclusion. The work remains a cornerstone of contemporary American literature. A sweeping saga of the vanishing American frontier, the Border Trilogy unfolds across the sprawling Texas ranchlands and the rugged sierras of northern Mexico. The narratives follow John Grady Cole and Billy Parham, whose paths eventually converge as they encounter a world modernizing beyond their grasp. The cycle balances the romantic allure of a fading landscape against the resilience of those left in its wake. Taken as a whole, the work transitions McCarthy?s style toward a more accessible but no less profound lyricism, cementing his status as a definitive voice of the American West. Signed.

Everyman's Library edition of McCarthy's classic trilogy, appearing here in one volume for the first time. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Cormac McCarthy on the half-title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket photograph by Mario Ettlinger. Jacket design by Barbara de Wilde. Rare and desirable signed. McCarthy's award-winning and best-selling trio of novels, The Border Trilogy, constitutes a genuine American epic. The young men in these novels come of age on Southwestern ranches in the 1930's, while across the border, Mexico beckons them with its desolate beauty and the cruel promise of a place where dreams are paid for in blood. The San Francisco Chronicle calls the trilogy "An American classic to stand with the finest literary achievements of the century" and the Chicago Tribune exclaimed, "Make a place on your bookshelf. If you love classic narrative, quest stories, adventure stories of high order transformed by one of the lapidary masters of contemporary American fiction, now is your hour of triumph.".

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Limited Edition. Cormac McCarthy, The Crossing. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994. Signed Limited Edition, with 1000 copies signed for friends of the publisher and author. Octavo, 426pp., publishers black boards with gilt lettering to spine and cover board. Deckled fore edge. Red top stain. Signed by author in a tipped in limitation page. Chip Kidd designed dust jacket, $23.00 price intact. Author photo to rear flap and 6/94 code. Author s second book in The Boarder Trilogy. Many readers have marked this novel as their favorite book of the trilogy, but one of their favorites overall in McCarthy s collection of novels. Book in NF with top stain ever so slightly toned. A little handling wear. Tight binding, straight. Clean internally. VG Dust jacket has not been price clipped. Small crease lower front panel. Typical rubbing. A nice signed copy of one of the author s finest novels. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Author(s): Cormac McCarthy Title: The Crossing (Signed) Publication: New York: Knopf, 1994 Edition: Signed First Edition Description: Octavo, 426, original black cloth spine over black paper-covered boards, silver gilt details. First edition stated. Deckled edges. A Special first edition and first printing signed by McCarthy on a tipped in page and prepared especially for the Kroch s & Brentanos First Edition Circle and with the bookmark for the First Edition Circle program laid in. These copies, while still tipped in pages, were much scarer than the 1/1000 copies. Book in VG+ with light wear from handling, clean internally and clean text block. In original publishers jacket in VG with price intact. A very nice copy, and a rare edition. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Book Two, the Border Trilogy. This is one of the copies prepared for Kroch and Brentano's first edition club, signed on a tipped-in page at the front. This version is much less common than the version signed on a sheet giving a limitation of 1000 copies. The Ahearns, in their Author Price Guide for this title, (7e) cite booksellers giving print runs from 483 to 530 copies. In any case, an uncommon variant. First edition (stated). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. This copy is signed by McCarthy on a tipped-in page at the front, as issued. From the Tom Garner collection.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good +. First Edition. Three Volume Set; 1992, 1994, 1998. Signed volume two and three. First Edition. Author's signature to front fly leaf of volume two and to title page of volume three. Quarter black cloth over black paper-covered boards with gilt particulars to spine and author's intials in gilt to front board. Previous owner's stamp to lower edge of title page and to front pastedown of volume one; otherwise, pages are clean and unmarked. Text block has deckled fore edge, top edge of volume two sprayed maroon, and top edge of volume three sprayed red. Volume one has light foxing to fore edge, moderate foxing to lower edge, and heavy foxing to top edge. Boards are clean and bright with light bumping to lower corners of volume one and volume three, light bumping to ends of spine of volume one and volume three, and light bumping to tail of volume two. Light soiling to cloth of volume one at ends of spine and spine edge. Binding is tight and square. Dust jacket is clean and bright with light creasing to ends of spine particularly at volume one. Dust jacket is covered in a protective mylar jacket.

First edition of McCarthy's classic trilogy, appearing here in one volume for the first time. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author, "For Tom and Corinne All the best Your friend Cormac." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket photograph by Mario Ettlinger. Jacket design by Barbara de Wilde. Rare and desirable signed and inscribed. McCarthy's award-winning and best-selling trio of novels, The Border Trilogy, constitutes a genuine American epic. The young men in these novels come of age on Southwestern ranches in the 1930's, while across the border, Mexico beckons them with its desolate beauty and the cruel promise of a place where dreams are paid for in blood. The San Francisco Chronicle calls the trilogy "An American classic to stand with the finest literary achievements of the century" and the Chicago Tribune exclaimed, "Make a place on your bookshelf. If you love classic narrative, quest stories, adventure stories of high order transformed by one of the lapidary masters of contemporary American fiction, now is your hour of triumph.".

First British editions of each title in the author's acclaimed Border Trilogy. Octavo, original half cloth, three volumes. All three volumes are signed by Cormac McCarthy and additionally signed three times in each volume by legendary jacket designer Chip Kidd, on the front panel, on the half-title page and on the rear flaps. Each are fine in near fine dust jackets. Jacket design by Chip Kidd. Cormac McCarthy's award-winning and best-selling trio of novels, The Border Trilogy, constitutes a genuine American epic. The young men in these novels come of age on Southwestern ranches in the 1930's, while across the border, Mexico beckons them with its desolate beauty and the cruel promise of a place where dreams are paid for in blood. The San Francisco Chronicle calls the trilogy "An American classic to stand with the finest literary achievements of the century" and the Chicago Tribune exclaimed, "Make a place on your bookshelf. If you love classic narrative, quest stories, adventure stories of high order transformed by one of the lapidary masters of contemporary American fiction, now is your hour of triumph.".

First paperback edition of the second book in the author's acclaimed Border Trilogy. Octavo, original wrappers. Signed by the author on the title page, "For Randy, All best wishes, Cormac McCarthy." In near fine condition. Cover design by Chip Kidd. In The Crossing, Cormac McCarthy fulfills the promise of All the Pretty Horses and at the same time give us a work that is darker and more visionary, a novel with the unstoppable momentum of a classic western and the elegaic power of a lost American myth. In the late 1930s, sixteen-year-old Billy Parham captures a she-wolf that has been marauding his family's ranch. But instead of killing it, he decides to take it back to the mountains of Mexico. With that crossing, he begins an arduous and often dreamlike journey into a country where men meet ghosts and violence strikes as suddenly as heat-lightning--a world where there is no order "save that which death has put there.".

First editions of each title in the author's acclaimed Border Trilogy. Octavo, original half cloth, three volumes. Each volume is signed by Cormac McCarthy on the half-title page and each volume is signed three times by jacket designer Chip Kidd. All the Pretty Horses is a presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "For Vicki, With all the very best wishes from your friend Cormac." Each volume is signed by Chip Kidd on the half-title page, the front jacket panel and the rear jacket panel. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box, which is boldly signed by Chip Kidd on the front panel. Each are fine in fine dust jackets. Jacket design by Chip Kidd. A unique set. Cormac McCarthy's award-winning and best-selling trio of novels, The Border Trilogy, constitutes a genuine American epic. The young men in these novels come of age on Southwestern ranches in the 1930's, while across the border, Mexico beckons them with its desolate beauty and the cruel promise of a place where dreams are paid for in blood. The San Francisco Chronicle calls the trilogy "An American classic to stand with the finest literary achievements of the century" and the Chicago Tribune exclaimed, "Make a place on your bookshelf. If you love classic narrative, quest stories, adventure stories of high order transformed by one of the lapidary masters of contemporary American fiction, now is your hour of triumph.".

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. All the Pretty Horses, The Crossing and City of the Plain, All Fine in Fine, First Editions,UK First Printings, All the Pretty Horses is Signed by Author, in archival protection. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Author: McCarthy, Cormac Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf New York 1994 Description: First US edition Second volume inÂThe Border Trilogy A stunning saga of loyalty and love, filled equally with sorrow and humour, The Border TrilogyÂis a powerful story of two friends growing up in a world where blood and violence are conditions of life. One of 1000 copies signed by the author for friends of the author and publisher. Condition: Fine condition. Cloth and paper binding, gilt lettering to spine. With CM in gilt to front board. Binding is firm, corners sharp. Pages untrimmed, internally free of foxing and markings with one black dot to bottom edge. In a fine unclipped wrapper. A beautiful copy. Size: 220 x 150 mm. Signed by Author(s).

Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. A fine, clean and tight copy in a fine jacket/brodart covered. Stated First Edition and signed by McCarthy on the front free endpaper. A very nice copy. McCarthy was known for not signing his books, therefore, signed copies are much fewer and rarer than limited edition signed copies. No bumped corners to book. No tears, no chips to jacket. Jacket is not priced clipped.

First Editions. First Printings, with The Crossing and Cities of the Plain each being the limited issue (one of 1,000 copies). Three octavo volumes (22cm); black paper and cloth-covered boards, with titling and author's initials stamped in gilt on spines and front covers; brown and red topstains; [x],302,[8]; [viii],426; [viii],291,[7]pp. All the Pretty Horses is signed by McCarthy on the title page, with other two volumes signed on the tipped-in limitation page, as issued. First volume shows modest rubbing to backstrip, with rear board corners gently tapped (though still sharp); contents clean; Very Good+ or better in a Near Fine, unclipped dustjacket, with a faint, shallow stain along the lower rear panel. Second and third volumes show some trivial wear to jacket extremities, with some faint spotting and a tiny scuff to lower edge of textblock on Cities; Near Fine in Near Fine, unclipped dustjackets. Attractive set of McCarthy's critically acclaimed Border Trilogy his first encounter with mainstream success after writing five novels between 1965-1985. Beginning with the publication of All the Pretty Horses, for the first time in McCarthy's career, his publisher poured a considerable amount of money into marketing the novel, with pre-publication copies in five formats (including an attractive signed advance in a folding case) produced and widely-circulated. Few signings events were done for the novel, after which McCarthy, publicity shy and committed to a private life, would seldom do public events or book signings, opting to sign sheets to be tipped-in to subsequent books. All the Pretty Horses won both the National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award in 1992, and served as the basis for Billy Bob Thorton's 2000 adaptation starring Matt Damon and Penelope Cruz.

Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Omnibus Edition. First omnibus edition, first printing. Signed by Cormac McCarthy on a tipped in sheet. Bound in publisher's red cloth with gilt spine lettering blocked in black. Fine, with light fraying to end of ribbon place-holder, in Fine unclipped dust jacket. Collects the three novels of McCarthy's Border Trilogy, All the Pretty Horses, The Crossing and Cities of the Plain.