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First editions. Both The Crossing and Cities of the Plain are signed by Cormac McCarthy on tipped-in leaves at front, each one of 1,000 copies especially prepared for friends of the author and publisher. There was no signed publisher's gift copy issued for All the Pretty Horses. Complete in three volumes, bound in publisher's black cloth and boards, lettered in gilt.Fine in Fine dust jackets. Cities of the Plain is also an advance review copy with publisher's slip and b/w photo of the author laid in. Provenance: from the collection of Kevin Hunsanger. A complete first edition set of McCarthy's acclaimed trio of novels, in excellent shape with both volumes that were issued as signed limited editions present.

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.