Books

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A signed first edition of the final installment in the author's Border Trilogy (Book Three, the Border Trilogy). First edition (first printing, stating "First Edition" on the copyright page, with no indication of later printings). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket, signed on the half-title page by McCarthy. The top edge stain is a touch light at the fore-edge. 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.