All the Pretty Horses; The Crossing; Cities of the Plain.

MCCARTHY, Cormac.

Item Number: 861

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992-1998..

First editions of each title in the author’s acclaimed Border Trilogy. Octavo, original half cloth. 3 volumes. Each volume is signed or inscribed. All the Pretty Horses is signed by McCarthy on the half-title page with review material laid in. Cities of the Plain is a special signed first edition limited to 1,000 copies, which was specially prepared for friends of the author and publisher. The Crossing is inscribed, “For Janet All best from your friend Cormac.” Each are fine in fine dust jackets. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. A very sharp set.

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 promice 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."