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Cormac McCarthy. All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy). Alfred A. Knopf, 1992.
Price: US$19.50 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: A readable copy of the book which may include some defects such as highlighting and notes. Cover and pages may be creased and show discolouration.
Seller: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom
Cormac McCarthy. All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy). Alfred A. Knopf, 1992.
Price: US$19.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Seller: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom
McCarthy, Cormac. All the Pretty Horses McCarthy, Cormac. Alfred A. Knopf, 1992.
Price: US$44.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1992 , 16th printing , volume one , the border trilogy , clean well kept hardcover copy with dust jacket, price tag uncut no markings, stickers or stains. fast shipping with tracking number.
Seller: RUSH HOUR BUSINESS, worcester, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., A Borzoi Book, New York, New York, U.S.A., 1993. "Nineteenth Printing, February 1993" (stated), of the First (1st) Edition. (Note that the first printing of the first edition came out on May 11, 1992.) Fine in a Near Fine+ Dust Jacket. Appears Unread. The Text Block is clean, white, tight, straight and square, with deckled fore-edges, pale green topstain, and no markings of any kind. The Binding is black quarter cloth to black boards, all colors uniform throughout, with author's initials embossed in bright gilt to front cover, bright gilt title, etc., to spine, white endpapers unmarked except for remains from removal of a glued price stamp from the front endpaper, and all corners square and sharp. The Dust Jacket is bright, intact, and would be flawless but for a crease at the top of the front panel and a small tear at the top front fold that has been discreetly closed from behind with archival - pH neutral - materials, with the original prices (USA $21.00, Canada $26.50) intact on the front flap, and a green "A" on front flap, date of "5/92" on rear flap, and five (5) reviews on rear panel, including Publishers Weekly. [NOTE: McBride, Points of Issue, indicates that the first issue dust jacket has no color in the "A" and no review from Publishers Weekly.] See photos. 302 + i pages. 5 3/4" x 8 5/8". Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Volume One of The Border Trilogy, the novel was the basis for the film of the same name directed by Billy Bob Thornton and starring Matt Damon and Penelope Cruz. ISBN 10: 0394574745 / ISBN 13: 9780394574745 We also have The Crossing and Cities of the Plain for sale.
Seller: Mattabesset Books, Kensington, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$102.47 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 3 Vols. The Crossing & Cities Of The Plain are first editions but trilogy sold as set. Top text blocks are stained red, and side text blocks are untrimmed. First book has 3cm tear to front and light shelf wear. Second book has sticker damage to end papers. Otherwise lovely copies. HEAVY - UK & OVERSEAS ORDERS MAY INCUR EXTRA SHIPPING.
Seller: Broad Street Book Centre, Hereford, United Kingdom
Cormac Mccarthy. All the Pretty Horses (Border Trilogy, Vol 1). Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1992.
Price: US$124.14 + shipping
Condition: New
Description: 13th printing edition. 301 pages. 8.75x6.00x1.25 inches. In Stock.
Seller: Revaluation Books, Exeter, United Kingdom
Price: US$180.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The first volume on the Border Trilogy. Winner of the National Book Award & the National Book Critics Circle Award. Made into a film starring Matt Damon. First edition (stated). A very good copy in a near fine dust jacket. The top edge of the page block is lightly spotted, the page block is just separating from the spine, and there is some mild bumping and shelfwear to the top edge of the jacket. A nice enough, but not perfect, copy.
Seller: Downtown Brown Books, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Cormac McCarthy. The Border Trilogy. Alfred Knopf, 1992.
Price: US$230.95 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: VERY GOOD conditon DUST JACKETS: Minor wear to top and bottom of spine, panels, folds and flaps. Very small stain to bottom edge of back panel, reverse, Vol. I. Very small ink mark to bottom of spine, Vol. II. BOARDS: Very good condition. Shelf rubbing to bottom edges, in particular, foot of spine. BOOKS: Very good condition. Nice topstains. Very light soiling to textblock page edges, primarily foredge and foot, Vol. I; a couple of small spots on FFEP to same. Ink markings bottom of FFEP, Vol. II. Remainder mark on textblock foot, Vol. III. Please inspect photos closely for condition details. ****************************** Here on offer is a very nice set of Cormac McCarthy's award-winning and bestselling epic of the Old West, The Border Trilogy, consisting of All the Pretty Horses, a National Book Award winner, The Crossing and Cities of the Plain. These are all 1st trade editions, 1st printings of the work, published by Alfred Knopf in 1992, 1994 and 1998 respectively. The dust jackets are protected from further wear by a Mylar sleeve. ************************************ ALL THE PRETTY HORSES: ***** "NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER NATIONAL BESTSELLER The first volume in the Border Trilogy, from the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize winning novel The Road ***** All the Pretty Horses is the tale of John Grady Cole, who at sixteen finds himself at the end of a long line of Texas ranchers, cut off from the only life he has ever imagined for himself. With two companions, he sets off for Mexico on a sometimes idyllic, sometimes comic journey to a place where dreams are paid for in blood." ***** THE CROSSING: ***** "Following All the Pretty Horses in Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy is a novel whose force of language is matched only by its breadth of experience and depth of thought. ***** In the bootheel of NewMexico hard on the frontier, Billy and Boyd Parham are just boys in the years before the Second World War, but on the cusp of unimaginable events. First comes a trespassing Indian and the dream of wolves running wild amongst the cattle lately brought onto the plain by settlers -- this when all the wisdom of trappers has disappeared along with the trappers themselves. And so Billy sets forth at the age of sixteen on an unwitting journey into the souls of boys and animals and men. Having trapped a she-wolf he would restore to the mountains of Mexico, he is long gone and returns to find everything he left behind transformed utterly in his absence. Except his kid brother, Boyd, with whom he strikes out yet again to reclaim what is theirs thus crossing into 'that antique gaze from whence there could be no way back forever.' ***** An essentialnovel by any measure, The Crossing is luminous and appalling, a book that touches, stops, and starts the heart and mind at once." ***** CITIES OF THE PLAIN: ***** "NATIONAL BESTSELLER The third volume of the award-winning Border Trilogy, from the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize winning novel The Road A darkly beautiful elegy for the American frontier ***** The setting is New Mexico in 1952, where John Grady Cole and Billy Parham are working as ranch hands. To the North lie the proving grounds of Alamogordo; to the South, the twin cities of El Paso and Juarez, Mexico. Their life is made up of trail drives and horse auctions and stories told by campfire light. It is a life that is about to change forever, and John Grady and Billy both know it. ***** The catalyst for that change appears in the form of a beautiful, ill-starred Mexican prostitute. When John Grady falls in love, Billy agrees against his better judgment to help him rescue the girl from her suavely brutal pimp. The ensuing events resonate with the violence and inevitability of classic tragedy. Hauntingly beautiful, filled with sorrow, humor and awe, Cities of the Plain is a genuine American epic." ////////////////////////////////////// The above text was taken fr
Seller: Second-handsome Books, College Station, TX, U.S.A.
Price: US$235.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo. 302 pp. Hardcover binding in unclipped dustwrapper, very good condition. (10252).
Seller: Bauer Rare Books, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
Cormac McCarthy. All The Pretty Horses. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1992.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Gift Inscription (tidy, discrete) on second free page, not price clipped Volume 1, The Border Trilogy. a fine copy
Seller: Pleasant Street Books, woodstock, VT, U.S.A.
McCarthy, Cormac. All the Pretty Horses. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1992.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Near fine in fine dust jacket, in clear archival sleeve; minor foxing to top of pageblock else a tight square unmarked copy in unclipped dust jacket; jacket and text are clean and bright; stated first edition with no later statements (and with green title letters on title page and opening letter on jacket flap) ; author's first book in the Borders Trilogy and basis for the Matt Damon film of the same name
Seller: David Kaye Books & Memorabilia, Woodland Hills, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$266.66 + shipping
Description: First Edition. 8vo. pp.iv + 302. Original quarter black cloth hardcover titles in silver. Deckled long fore edge. .Green A on front blurb. Title page green lettering.Stated First Edition. Fine in complete pictorial dustwrapper. Original price $21 and 5/92 on rear dustwrapper blurb. " John Grady Cole is the last bewildered survivor of long generations of Texas ranchers. Finding himself cut off from the only life he has ever wanted, he sets out for Mexico with his friend Lacey Rawlins. Befriending a third boy on the way, they find a country beyond their imagining: barren and beautiful, rugged yet cruelly civilized; a place where dreams are paid for in blood."
Seller: A&F.McIlreavy.Buderim Rare Books, Buderim, QLD, Australia
McCarthy (Cormac). All the Pretty Horses. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1992.
Price: US$333.02 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, first printing. 8vo. Original black cloth lettered in gilt. Dust-jacket, priced $11.00. The first edition of the first book in the 'Border trilogy' by the recently deceased Cormac McCarthy, a best-selling work that was adapted into a 2000 film starring Matt Damon and Pen犋ope Cruz, directed by Billy Bob Thornton.
Seller: Lycanthia Rare Books, Newark, NOTTS, United Kingdom
Price: US$337.73 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: ALL THREE FIRST EDITIONS. "All the Pretty Horses" is in a second state dustjacket. All three books are fine copies. Sold as a set only.
Seller: Maxwell Books, Port Hadlock, WA, U.S.A.
McCarthy, Cormac. All the Pretty Horses. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1992.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Printing. First Edition stated. A beautiful copy with no flaws. First Book in the Border Trilogy. The book is protected in a custom cut clear mylar cover. All books will be carefully wrapped and shipped in a box.
Seller: Cahill Rare Books, Mission Viejo, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$360.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: The first volume of the Border Trilogy. Winner of the National Book Award & the National Book Critics Circle Award. First edition (stated). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket that has a bit of shelfwear.
Seller: Downtown Brown Books, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
McCarthy, Cormac. All the Pretty Horses. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1992.
Price: US$385.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 8vo. [11], 5-301, [9] pp. Quarter black cloth over black paper boards with gold lettering on the front board and spine. Price of $21.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Ahearn APG 006h. According to Ahearn this copy has the second issue jacket with the Publisher's Weekly review on the rear panel. McCarthy's sixth book, and the first book in McCarthy's Border Trilogy. Many consider this title, a best-seller, to be the book that brought McCarthy to national prominence. Winner of the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Basis for the eponymous 2000 film directed by Billy Bob Thornton. A small concavity to the spine.
Seller: Evening Star Books, ABAA/ILAB, Madison, WI, U.S.A.
McCarthy, Cormac. All the Pretty Horses. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1992.
Price: US$395.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 8vo., 302pp. Beautiful Stated First Edition of the author's .first book in his acclaimed Border Trilogy. Square, tight, and clean throughout with little or no wear. Equally attractive unclipped dust jacket, ($21.00), is bright and fresh with no chipping, creases or tears. A gorgeous collectable copy at a great price.
Seller: Brenner's Collectable Books ABAA, IOBA, Manasquan, NJ, U.S.A.
McCARTHY, Cormac. All The Pretty Horses (Uncorrected Proof). Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1992.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. Softcover. Uncorrected proof. The first book in McCarthy's now classic trilogy of novels which helped garner him the attention and readership that he so rightly deserved. Winner of both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Adapted into a movie starring Matt Damon and Penelope Cruz. The later state of the proof with "The Border Trilogy" and "4 May 1992" on the front cover. A fine unread copy in wrappers.
Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA, Wadsworth, IL, U.S.A.
MCCARTHY, CORMAC.. ALL THE PRETTY HORSES.. Alfred A. Knopf, 1992., New York, 1992.
Price: US$475.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. Half Cloth and Boards. [302pp.] Volume I of the Border Trilogy. Sixteen-year old John Grady escapes from the heavy trials of life in west Texas over the border into Mexico on horseback. His friend Lacey travels with him. Along the way, they pick up a rogue named Blevins and arrive at a hacienda where they're hired to break horses. Grady falls in love with the owner's beautiful daughter . a disaster that leads in succession to arrest and Mexican jail and murder in self-defense. Winner of the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Basis for the Billy Bob Thornton film that starred Matt Damon and Penelope Cruz.
Seller: BUCKINGHAM BOOKS, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, GREENCASTLE, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Uncorrected Proof, 'A Border Trilogy' version with tentative pub date & price. beige wrapper, title in black, clean & bright, pristine, bndg crisp, no creases or tears, exc unread, as new, gift cond; interior unmarked, 298 pp. 5.5"x 8.5".
Seller: Ragabooks, Palo Alto, CA, U.S.A.
McCarthy, Cormac. The Border Trilogy. Alfred A. Knopf, 1992.
Price: US$510.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992-1998. First Editions of each title in the author's acclaimed Border Trilogy All The Pretty Horses; The Crossing and Cities of the Plain. Hardcover: NEAR FINE. Dust Wrapper: NEAR FINE. Very slight showing of shelf wear, bruising and foxing; free of any marks or inscriptions; leaves are crisp and clean.
Seller: Bynx, LLC, Orlando, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$544.37 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Three Volumes, all First Editions, first impressions, published in 1992, 1994 & 1998 respectively. Octavos. Bound in black paper covered hard boards over black cloth spines. All the Pretty Horses is in the first state dust jacket (unclipped $21.00 and 5/92 on the lower edge of the rear flap). Books and jackets in Near Fine to Fine condition. First volume has a light sprinkling of spotting on the top edge and the second volume has a little fade to the cloth at the bottom of the spine and a water stain on the bottom of the rear panel of the jacket, otherwise this is an excellent set.
Seller: Picture This (ABA, ILAB, IVPDA), Sunningdale, United Kingdom
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition. Three volumes. All the Pretty Horses was McCarthy's breakthrough novel and won the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. The 2000 film version starred Matt Damon and Penelope Cruz. The dustjacket on All the Pretty Horses has $21.00 price and 5/92 at lower edge of rear flap. Cities of the Plain is a review copy, with slip laid in. Each volume is fine in fine dustjacket.
Seller: Fireproof Books, MINNETONKA, MN, U.S.A.
McCarthy, Cormac. All the Pretty Horses', US uncorrected proof. Alfred A. Knopf, 1992.
Price: US$672.45 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Cormac McCarthy (1992) All the Pretty Horses, US uncorrected proof copy, published by Alfred A. Knopf. There seem to be two proof variants of this title. This variant states under the title Volume One of A Border Trilogy where the A is crossed out and the article the written above; and where the definite publication date is written by hand rather than typed. Also, the Advance Praise sheet is stapled to the reverse front wrap. A second variant of the proof has the subtitle written correctly, the publication date is printed and there is no sheet stapled. Logic would dictate that this variant preceeds the other. Condition: fine Provenance: From the Dr Philip Murray collection. All the Pretty Horses is McCarthys sixth novel and the first in his Border Trilogy. The book bacame McCarthys breaktrhough work and earned him the U.S. National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Filmed in 2000 starring Matt Damon and Penelope Cruz. First and Fine
Seller: First and Fine, Birmingham, United Kingdom
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, three volumes, cloth-backed boards. ALL THE PRETTY HORSES (1992) became a New York Times bestseller, selling 190,000 hardcover copies within six months, and it won both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. It was followed by THE CROSSING (1994) and CITIES OF THE PLAIN (1998). A fine set in fine dust jackets (the first book with published state jacket priced $21 with quote from Publishers Weekly printed on rear panel). (#169158) (29848)
Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$960.65 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: FIRST EDITIONS. 1st impressions. Three Volumes. 8vo. (8.6 x 6.1 inches). Fine, bright copies in the publishers fine original dustwrappers, designed by Chip Kidd. A fine set of true first editons of this hugely popular trilogy. There is some confusion about a probable trial issue dustwrapper for the first title, with no advance praise notices on the lower panel and lacking the blue capital letter 'A' at the start of the blurb inside the front flap. This wrapper was not officially issued with the published book. The first edition wrapper, as issued on day of publication, has the price of $21.00 on the inner front flap and the number code '5/92' at the bottom of the inner rear flap. The wrapper on All the Pretty horses in this set has both of these points.
Seller: Paul Foster. - ABA & PBFA Member., London, United Kingdom
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Three Volumes. A Fine set, bound in printed wrappers. All the Pretty Horses, May 1992, 298pp. The Crossing, June 1994, 421pp. Cities of the Plain, May 1998, 289pp. includes promotional sheet stapled to front cover, and in trade dustwrapper. The first volume won the National Book Award. Q18109
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
McCARTHY, Cormac.. All the Pretty Horses.. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992, 1992.
Price: US$1601.08 + shipping
Description: Advance review copy of the first edition, signed by the author on the front free endpaper, rare in such pristine condition. All the Pretty Horses is the novel that first brought McCarthy widespread acclaim, winning him the National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award in 1992. The first novel in McCarthy's Border Trilogy, All the Pretty Horses is a coming-of-age Western set in the borderlands between the US and Mexico in the years following the Second World War. It was adapted into a film in 2000, starring Matt Damon and Penélope Cruz. Octavo. Original horse-patterned orange wrappers with pale orange printed band, spine and front cover lettered in black, author's name on front cover in white on black ground. With publisher's card slipcase with envelope-style flap, as issued. Slipcase a little rubbed with short closed tear at head of entry: a fine copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Cormac McCarthy. All The Pretty Horses. Alfred A. Knopf, 1992.
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Long Uncorrected Galley Proofs With Letter From Sonny Mehta on Knopf Letterhead To Booksellers. Very Rare In This Format. Excellent Crisp Copy of The First Border Book. This Book was his Break Out Book.
Seller: Jeff Bergman Books ABAA, ILAB, Flemington, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$4900.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: FIRST EDITIONS, with All the Pretty Horses and The Crossing signed and inscribed by McCarthy. Inscribed in ink on the half-titles of All the Pretty Horses: "For Darla / All best / Cormac McCarthy"; and The Crossing: "For Darla / All best wishes / Cormac McCarthy". All three volumes are from the recipient, with detailed letter of provenance (available upon request). "The completion of Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy - All the Pretty Horses (1992), The Crossing (1994), and Cities of the Plain (1998)--marked a major achievement in American literature. Only ten years earlier this now internationally acclaimed novelist had been called the best unknown writer in America. "The trilogy is McCarthy's most ambitious project yet, composed at the height of his mature powers over a period of fifteen years. It is 'a miracle in prose,' as Robert Hass wrote of its middle volume, an unsentimental elegy for the lost world of the cowboy, the passing of the wilderness, and the fading innocence of post-World War II America. The trilogy is a literary accomplishment with wide appeal, for despite the challenging materials in each book, these volumes remained on bestseller lists for many weeks." (Arnold and Luce, A Cormac McCarthy Companion). Note: The Crossing was also issued in a signed limited edition of 1000 copies with a tipped-in leaf signed by McCarthy (before binding). The copy in the present set is a much more desirable first trade edition where McCarthy actually signed the book. There was no signed limited edition issued for All the Pretty Horses. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992-98. Octavo, original half black cloth, original dust jackets. Fine copies. Original cloth, original dust jacket
Seller: Manhattan Rare Book Company, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
McCarthy, Cormac. All the Pretty Horses.. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1992.
Price: US$5500.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of the first novel in McCarthy's acclaimed Border Trilogy and winner of the National Book Award. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Cormac McCarthy on the front free endpaper and additionally signed three times by jacket designer Chip Kidd, once on the front panel, on the half-title and on the rear flap. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Chip Kidd. All the Pretty Horses is an American classic to stand with the finest literary achievements of the century" (San Francisco Chronicle). "A taut, poetic evocation of the remote backcountry of south Texas and northern Mexico, strongly imagined and beautifully rendered by a very fine writerone of our bestwho deserves far more renown. The perception of horses is extraordinary, and Jimmy Blevins will take a place as one of the great characters of American literature" (Peter Matthiessen).
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$8500.00 + shipping
Description: 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.
Seller: Captain Ahab's Rare Books, ABAA, Stephenson, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$8800.00 + shipping
Description: First editions of each title in the author's acclaimed Border Trilogy. Octavo, original half cloth, three volumes. The Crossing is a presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "For Jim and Brenda with love Cormac." The other two volumes are signed by Cormac McCarthy and additionally signed three times in each volume by legendary jacket designer Chip Kidd. Each are fine in 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."
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$11500.00 + shipping
Description: 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."
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Cormac McCarthy. The Border Trilogy (Three 1st Editions). Knopf, 1992.
Price: US$12000.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: This signed first edition set of Cormac McCarthy's The Border Trilogy is a must-have for any collector of rare and unique books. The cloth binding and 1st prints give this set a vintage and authentic feel. This particular set was published from 1992 to 1998 by Alfred A. Knopf and includes all three books in the trilogy. The books are all hand held and signed by Cormac McCarthy with inscriptions and amazing signatures that are 100% authentic as I have been buying and selling his signed books for many years now. Please do your own comparisons and you will see these are quite genuine. Important note, these are not tipped in signatures. Many examples on the market are examples of tipped in signatures. The signatures on tipped in pages are real yet McCarthy never held the books. He was simply sent blank sheets of paper he signed and returned to the book binder to be included into the books. This set is a rare example where he held each book, opened it to the appropriate page and wrote out an inscription as well as his signature. McCarthy granted only a handful of interviews in his career, never did public book signings, abhorred talking about writing and was very private and thus hand held and signed copies of his work are quite scarce. This set I put together over many years searching for the right copies. All The Pretty Horses - a first edition and first printing in VG + condition with some handling wear, some very slight toning and slightest softening to spine ends. Signed in black sharpie to Tom Cox. Jacket in about NF with trace edge wear and it is NOT price clipped. The Crossing - first edition and first printing - Fine book signed in black sharpie to American book dealer Gil Moody of Moody Books, fine jacket. Cities of the Plain - First edition and first printing - NF to Fine book with slightest handling wear and trace rubbing to boards but frankly it s not noticeable. A really nice example signed to Dwight in black Sharpie. Jacket about NF with ever so slight age toning. Not price clipped. . #cormacmccarthy #alltheprettyhorses #bloodmeridian #suttree #signedbooks #modernfirsteditions #signedfirsts #signedcormacmccarthy #bibliophile #rarebooks
Seller: Books 4 Ewe, York, SC, U.S.A.