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New Orleans: B. E. Trice, 1998. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. Volume Three, the Border Trilogy. One of 300 signed and numbered copies bound in quarter-leather over marbled paper-covered boards. Bound from the sheets of the first printing by Knopf. First edition (first printing, limited issue). A fine copy in a fine slipcase; still sealed in the publisher's shrinkwrap. This is copy 262, numbered on a Post-It note under the shrinkwrap, as issued. From the Tom Garner collection.

Cities of the Plain is the third novel in American author Cormac McCarthy’s 'Border Trilogy'. The novel was published in 1998, and it continues following the story of John Grady Cole, a young Texas cowboy, and Billy Parham, an older American cowboy, as their paths intertwine on a ranch near the U.S.-Mexico border.

First editions published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1998 typically state 'First Edition' along with a series of numbers that include the number '1' present on the copyright page.