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FIRST EDITION, ONE OF 1,000 COPIES signed by the author, title-page printed in red and brown, pp. [viii], 426, 8vo, original quarter black cloth and boards, author's initial stamped in gilt to upper board, backstrip lettered in gilt, top edge brown with a couple of faint waterspots, fore-edge roughtrimmed, dustjacket, near fine.

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.