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All the Pretty Horses Cormac McCarthy Picador
Coming-of-age
Western
Romanticism
1993
Hardcover
Signed
USD$1,882

Description

A Fine copy of the UK 1st edition with Cormac McCarthy's signature on the half-title. He signed quite a few copies of the USA 1st but signed UK 1sts are very hard to find. The dustjacket is unclipped with just some traces of shelfwear. BooksCurious

About All the Pretty Horses

All the Pretty Horses is a novel by American author Cormac McCarthy published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1992. It is a coming-of-age story following the protagonist, John Grady Cole, as he travels from Texas to Mexico in search of a more romantic vision of what it means to be a cowboy. The novel combines themes of identity, disillusionment, and the harsh realities of life in the 20th-century American West.

Identifying the First Edition of All the Pretty Horses

For Alfred A. Knopf's first edition, look for the stated 'First Edition' along with the presence of a series of numbers with '1' present on the copyright page.