“WHERE’S THE ALL-AMERICAN COWBOY AT?”: CITIES OF THE PLAIN, INSCRIBED BY CORMAC MCCARTHY

MCCARTHY, Cormac. Cities of the Plain. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998. Octavo, original half-black cloth, original dust jacket. $3500.

First trade edition of the final novel in McCarthy’s acclaimed “Border Trilogy,” inscribed on the half title, "For Tom & Connie. Thanks for your stories of Mexico. All best, Cormac McCarthy."

"That brief moment between a culture's existence and extinction—this is the border that McCarthy's characters keep crossing and recrossing, and the one story, as he's forever writing, that contains all others. Throughout the trilogy, we keep encountering witnesses—former revolutionaries, priests, gypsies — in whose testimony alone human history survives? McCarthy testifies to the passing not only of individual cowboys but an entire way of life" (New York Times). Also issued in a signed limited edition. With a biography of one of the recipients laid in.

Fine condition.