CITIES OF THE PLAIN - DELUXE ISSUE, SIGNED
New Orleans: B.E. Trice Publishing, 1998. First Edition. Item #8125
Deluxe Issue, one of 50 numbered copies specially bound and signed by the author, this being copy no.49. Octavo (21.75cm); marbled paper-covered boards and 3/4 tan calf, spine in four compartments, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dark brown endpapers; publisher's original dark brown cloth slipcase, with author's facsimile signature stamped in gilt on right side; [vi],[4],5-291,[7]pp. A Fine copy, still sealed in the publisher's shrinkwrap.
Handsome edition of the concluding volume in McCarthy's critically acclaimed Border Trilogy – his first encounter with mainstream success after writing five novels between 1965-1985. Produced by New Orleans-based bookseller Britton Trice, whose B.E. Trice imprint created limited editions of works by (mostly) Southern authors from the early 1990s through the mid-2000s.
Price: $3,250.00