Cities of the Plain: Volume Three Border Trilogy
by Cormac McCarthy
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good+
- ISBN 10
- 0679423907
- ISBN 13
- 9780679423904
- Seller
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About This Item
Gray and black boards with gold writing on spine; author's initials embossed in gold on front board. Top and bottom of book spine has very slight rumpling. Dust jacket spine sun-faded; slight shelf wear on top and bottom of dust jacket spine. Cover price of $24.00 on front dust jacket flap; tight binding and pages still look in excellent condition.
Knopf First Edition; First Printing as indicated by "First Edition" and no other editions or years listed on copyright page.
McCarthy's third volume in his famous "Border Trilogy" . Hardcover and original unclipped dust jacket protected by archival Mylar cover.
Synopsis
Cities of the Plain is the final volume of American novelist Cormac McCarthy's The Border Trilogy . The title is a reference to Sodom and Gomorrah. The novel b rings together John Grady Cole from All the Pretty Horses and Billy Parnham from The Crossing . Cities of the Plain focuses on Parnham's doomed relationship with a young Mexican prostitute.
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- Bookseller
- Sherlock Joe's Book Hunting (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- MCRY005
- Title
- Cities of the Plain
- Author
- Cormac McCarthy
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0679423907
- ISBN 13
- 9780679423904
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1998-05-12
- Pages
- 293
- Keywords
- cormac mccarthy; cities of the plain; border trilogy
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- Fiction;
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