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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).

The Crossing is the second novel in the Border Trilogy series by Cormac McCarthy. The story centers around a young man named Billy Parham who captures a wolf that has been preying on livestock and his journey across the border into Mexico. The novel explores themes of fate, suffering, and the pastoral versus the industrial world.