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Advance review copy of the first edition, signed by the author on the front free endpaper, rare in such pristine condition. All the Pretty Horses is the novel that first brought McCarthy widespread acclaim, winning him the National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award in 1992. The first novel in McCarthy's Border Trilogy, All the Pretty Horses is a coming-of-age Western set in the borderlands between the US and Mexico in the years following the Second World War. It was adapted into a film in 2000, starring Matt Damon and Penélope Cruz. Octavo. Original horse-patterned orange wrappers with pale orange printed band, spine and front cover lettered in black, author's name on front cover in white on black ground. With publisher's card slipcase with envelope-style flap, as issued. Slipcase a little rubbed with short closed tear at head of entry: a fine copy. .

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.