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Cities of the Plain (Signed First Edition)
by McCarthy, Cormac
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0679423907
- ISBN 13
- 9780679423904
- Seller
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Farmington, New Mexico, United States
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About This Item
SIGNED FIRST EDITION (stated on copyright page, no other printings indicated), New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1998. Fine/Fine, Unread. Publisher's statement on the tipped-in signature page: " One thousand copies of this Signed First Edition of Cities of the Plain have been especially prepared for friends of the Author and Publisher". A Fine book in a Fine Dust Jacket with no visible flaws, not price-clipped ($24.00), now protected in a Brodart cover. Text Clean, no marks. Black boards with gilt printing shows no wear, no bumps. Top text block stained red matching the colors on the jacket.
This is a beautiful like new copy of the third book in McCarthy,s Border Trilogy.
Books are Carefully Packed and Shipped Daily with Delivery Confirmation from a Dry, Smoke-Free shop.
Synopsis
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 b rings 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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- Bookseller
- McInBooks, IOBA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3783 M614
- Title
- Cities of the Plain (Signed First Edition)
- Author
- McCarthy, Cormac
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Signed, First Edition, First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0679423907
- ISBN 13
- 9780679423904
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1998
- Size
- 8vo
- Keywords
- Border Trilogy
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction; Signed;
Terms of Sale
McInBooks, IOBA
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About the Seller
McInBooks, IOBA
Biblio member since 2006
Farmington, New Mexico
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Welcome to McInBooks. I specialize in Modern Signed First Editions and other Fine Books.
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- Gilt
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- Jacket
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