Cities of the Plain. New York: Knopf, 1998. Limited Edition. Quarter cloth black paper boards, title lettered in gilt along spine, author’s initials to upper cover. In publisher’s pictorial dust jacket. A fine bright copy.

Limited Edition 1000 Copies, for friends of the author and publisher, Signed by the Author.

The third volume in McCarthy’s critically praised ‘The Border Trilogy.’

Following on from All the Pretty Horses & The Crossing, the finial novel in the trilogy returns to characters John Grady and Billy Parham, struggling to make a living on a drought-stricken cattle ranch near the Southwestern border of the United States and Mexico.