Cities of the Plain.
by McCARTHY, Cormac
- Used
- as new
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- As New/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0679423907
- ISBN 13
- 9780679423904
- Seller
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Edmonds, Washington, United States
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998. Signed and Inscribed on the half-title page by the author: For Irving & Harriet / All the best / Your friend / Cormac. First trade edition / First printing. Black cloth spine, black paper-covered boards. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. Inscribed to Irving and Harriet Brown, former booksellers, owners of HI Books and members of McCarthy's inner circle in El Paso. Inscribed copies of McCarthy's work are rarely on the market.
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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Details
- Bookseller
- Orpheus Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8060-2
- Title
- Cities of the Plain.
- Author
- McCARTHY, Cormac
- Format/Binding
- Black cloth spine, black paper-covered boards.
- Book Condition
- New As New
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First trade edition / First printing.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0679423907
- ISBN 13
- 9780679423904
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf,
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date Published
- 1998.
- Pages
- 293 pages.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction; Western Americana;
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