Cities of the Plain (Signed Limited First Edition in custom Slipcase)
Language: English
Published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1998
Series: Book 3 of 3 - The Border Trilogy
- First Edition
- Signed
- Hardcover
- New
Seller: McInBooks, IOBA, Farmington, NM, U.S.A.McInBooks, IOBA
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Condition: New
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SIGNED LIMITED FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING , New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1998. A FINE book in a FINE Dust Jacket. Housed in a Custom-Made Slipcase also in Fine condition. "First Edition" stated on the Copyright Page, with no later printings present. Book is NEW, UNREAD . Signed by McCarthy on the Limitation Page with the publisher's statement "One thousand copies of this signed first edition of Cities of the Plain have been especially prepared for friends of the author and Publisher". The Original Dust Jacket designed by Chip Kidd is Bright and Glossy, no tears, no wear, no fading, not price clipped ($24.00), now protected in a Brodart cover. The Book is in Fine condition with no visible flaws. It has dark grey covered boards, quarter bound in black cloth with gilt lettering on the spine and gilt "CM" on the front. The top edge is stained rust red. The boards show no wear, no bumps. Lettering on the spine is bright with no sign of wear. Binding is Tight and Square. Pages are clean, no tears, no folds. The Hard Shell Custom-Made Slipcase is also in Fine condition with no visible flaws. Front and back identify the book and author. This is a beautiful collectible copy of McCarthy's final volume in his Border Trilogy housed in a unique slipcase. Books are Carefully Packed and shipped Daily with USPS Tracking from a Dry, Smoke-Free shop. Signed, First Edition, First Printing, Slipcased.…
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- Title
- Cities of the Plain (Signed Limited First Edition in custom Slipcase)
- Author
- McCarthy, Cormac
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf, New York
- Publication year
- 1998
- Condition
- New
- Dust jacket
- Fine
- Signed
- Signed by Author(s)
- Binding
- Hardcover in Slipcase
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0679423907
- ISBN 13
- 9780679423904
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Series
- Book 3 of 3: The Border Trilogy
- Seller catalogs
- Fiction, Signed
In the fall of 1952, John Grady Cole and Billy Parham--nine years apart in age, yet with a kinship greater than perhaps they know--are cowboys on a New Mexico ranch encroached upon from the north, at Alamogordo, by the military. To the south, always on the horizon are the mountains of Mexico, looming over El Paso, Ciudad Juárez and all the cities of the plain.
Bound by nature to horses and cattle and range, these two discover that ranchlife domesticity is compromised, for them and the men they work with, by a geometry of loss afflicting old and young alike, those who have survived it and anyone about to try. And what draws one of them across the border again and again, what would bind "those disparate but fragile worlds," is a girl seized by ill fortune, and a love as dangerous as it is inevitable.
This story of friendship and passion is enfolded in a narrative replete with character and place and event--a blind musician, a marauding pack of dogs, curio shops and ancient petroglyphs, a precocious shoe-shine boy, trail drives from the century before, midnight on the highway--and with landforms and wildlife and horses and men, most of all men and the women they love and mourn, men and their persistence and memories and dreams.
With the terrible beauty of Cities of the Plain--with its magisterial prose, humor both wry and out-right, fierce conviction and unwavering humanity--Cormac McCarthy has completed a landmark of our literature and times, an epic that reaches from tales of the old west, the world past, into the new millennium, the world to come.
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