Books

Three Volume Set; 1992, 1994, 1998. Signed volume two and three. First Edition. Author's signature to front fly leaf of volume two and to title page of volume three. Quarter black cloth over black paper-covered boards with gilt particulars to spine and author's intials in gilt to front board. Previous owner's stamp to lower edge of title page and to front pastedown of volume one; otherwise, pages are clean and unmarked. Text block has deckled fore edge, top edge of volume two sprayed maroon, and top edge of volume three sprayed red. Volume one has light foxing to fore edge, moderate foxing to lower edge, and heavy foxing to top edge. Boards are clean and bright with light bumping to lower corners of volume one and volume three, light bumping to ends of spine of volume one and volume three, and light bumping to tail of volume two. Light soiling to cloth of volume one at ends of spine and spine edge. Binding is tight and square. Dust jacket is clean and bright with light creasing to ends of spine particularly at volume one. Dust jacket is covered in a protective mylar jacket.

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.