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Cities of the Plain (Signed Limited Edition) Hardcover - 1998

by McCarthy, Cormac


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Cities of the Plain is the final volume of American novelist Cormac McCarthy's The Border Trilogy. The title is a reference to Sodom and Gomorrah. The novel brings together John Grady Cole from All the Pretty Horses and Billy Parnham from The Crossing. Cities of the Plain focuses on Parnham's doomed relationship with a young Mexican prostitute.

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THEY STOOD in the doorway and stomped the rain from their boots and swung their hats and wiped the water from their faces.

First Edition Identification

Cities of the Plain was first published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1998. The first edition has reviews on the back dust jacket from Kurt Tidmore and Robert Hass. The retail." price was $24.00, and "First Edition" is stated on the copyright page. 

 One thousand copies were issued with a special signed limitation page tipped in for "friends of the author and publisher." 


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  • Title Cities of the Plain (Signed Limited Edition)
  • Author McCarthy, Cormac
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition Limited
  • Pages 292
  • Publisher B E Trice Pub, New Orleans, LA
  • Date 1998
  • ISBN 9781890885045
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New Orleans: B.E. Trice, 1998. Fine in fine slipcase.. Beautifully bound signed limited edition of the third volume of McCarthy's Border Trilogy. Following McCarthy's ALL THE PRETTY HORSES and THE CROSSING, CITIES OF THE PLAIN returns to characters John Grady and Billy Parham, struggling to make a living on a drought-stricken cattle ranch near the Southwestern border of the United States and Mexico. 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. A remarkably beautiful and untouched copy of this major work. 8.25'' x 5.5''. Original three-quarter gilt-stamped brown leather with marbled boards. Brown endpapers. In original gilt-stamped brown cloth slipcase. 291, [3] pages. No. 34 of a limited edition of 350 copies, signed by McCarthy at colophon. Faintest bumping to lower corner of text block.… Read More
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