Cormac McCarthy (1998) Cities of the Plain , US signed deluxe limited edition, published by B.E. Trice. One of only 50 copies of which this is no. 42. Condition: a near fine copy with a few faint foxing sprinkles on the page block. Internally clean with no bookplates, no previous owner s names etc. Beautiful production: bound in pale salmon and maroon marlbed paper boards, quarter leather spine and board tips, raised bands on spine, black tabs, dark brown end papers, in publisher s full cloth slipcase. Provenance: From the Dr Philip Murray collection. Cities of the Plain is Cormac s eighth novel and third in the Border Trilogy. All the Pretty Horses , the first Border Trilogy novel, won the U.S. National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award and catapulted McCarthy into a literary superstar. First and Fine.