BORDER TRILOGY: ALL THE PRETTY HORSES by Cormac McCarthy TRUE HB 1st PRINTINGS!

Description: WELCOME. 3 BOOKS FOR SALE: THE BORDER TRILOGY consisting of : ALL THE PRETTY HORSESTHE CROSSINGCITIES OF THE PLAIN by CORMAC McCARTHY. 3 Books for sale and included in this purchase: 1) - ALL THE PRETTY HORSES: New York, U.S.A.: Knopf, 1992. Black boards quarterbound in black cloth. Both the spine and the front board are stamped in gilt. Octavo. 302pps. First Printing. Overall, a presentable copy of this winner of both The National Book Award and The National Book Critics Circle Award. ".A critical triumph, this is the story of John Grady Cole, who at 16 finds himself at the dying end of a long line of Texas ranchers, cut off from the only life he has ever imagined for himself. To escape a society moving in all the wrong directions, Cole and two companions decide to seek their future in Mexico, a land at once beautiful and desolate, rugged and cruelly civilized. But what begins as an idyllic, sometimes comic adventure, leads, in fact, to a place where dreams are paid for in blood. Within months, one of the boys is dead, and the other two aged beyond their years. A story about childhood passing, innocence and an American age, here is a grand story and an education in responsibility, revenge, and survival. 'All the Pretty Horses' is truly a masterpiece. Increasingly Scarce in a true first printing. 2) - THE CROSSING: New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Date: 1994.First edition, First Printing with no mention of later printings. 8vo. Half Cloth and Boards. [426pp.] Volume Two of the Border Trilogy. "The Crossing concerns a young American rancher living near the Mexican border in the 1930s, a time when the old West is grudgingly entering the modern world while Mexico is being torn apart by revolution. And like volume one's memorable hero, John Cole Grady, 16-year-old Billy Pawson is drawn south in a nearly mythical journey to find himself. Billy initially crosses into Mexico to take a wolf he had trapped on his New Mexico ranch back to the animal's native mountains. When he returns, he finds that his home has been plundered, and he and his 14-year-old brother set off for Mexico to find their family's stolen horses. Traveling through the lawless ruins of the post-revolutionary Mexican countryside, they encounter Gypsy wanderers, carnival actors, horse-traders, horse thieves, revolutionary soldiers, and men of various religions. All offer sage advice about the journey, and Billy's failure to heed their wisdom sometimes has horrifying results." This is the story of how a teenage boy's well-intentioned folly ruins his life and destroys his family. And despite those who would try to set Billy Parham upon the right and true path, life throws up too many impassable obstacles. 3) - CITIES OF THE PLAIN: New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Date: 1998. First Edition, first printing. 8vo, publisher’s original black cloth backed boards, in the original illustrated dustjacket. 293 pp. The third installment in McCarthy’s famed “Border Trilogy” which also included “All the Pretty Horses’ and ‘The Crossing’. “The final volume of Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy, binds together the separate tales of John Grady Cole from All the Pretty Horses and Billy Parham from The Crossing to create a more realistic Billy and a more mythic John Grady. Within the confines of a relatively spare 293 pages, the classic "all-american cowboy" John Grady devotes himself to saving every hurt or wounded creature that crosses his path, a noble and impossible task that leads ultimately to his own destruction. The tragedy of his failed rescue of the epileptic prostitute Magdalena makes a martyr of the near-faultless John Grady, yet McCarthy stubbornly refuses to let the novel backslide into blubbery melodrama. Told in both McCarthy's signature lyrical style and his dead-on ranchero dialogue, Cities of the Plain ends the trilogy at the height of McCarthy's storytelling skill.” These are NOT an ex-Library or Remainder copies! ALL THREE books appear to be VERY GOOD + to NEAR FINE or better condition! VG to NF books in VERY GOOD jackets. Just the lightest hints of handling to spine ends, else FINE! Books are free of ALL owner writing, remainders, inscriptions, underlining etc... ALL 3 come in attractive jackets ALL books are collectible in their own rights, this is the complete set. Awesome opportunity for the collector. All items are carefully packed in bubble-wrap and placed INSIDE a BOX for shipping. BIDDERS, PLEASE NOTE: All images taken with a digital camera. I DO NOT use a scanner and any images of interior pages are taken carefully (The book is not flattened down to take images). Also I use a flash so some of the white "Hot" spots on the top and bottom of Books or along folds are caused by the flash and the reflection from the Mylar protector. Please refer to description for confirmation of condition. <

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