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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 brings 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.
First Edition Identification
Cities of the Plain was first published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1998. The first edition has reviews on the back dust jacket from Kurt Tidmore and Robert Hass. The retail." price was $24.00, and "First Edition" is stated on the copyright page. One thousand copies were issued with a special signed limitation page tipped in for "friends of the author and publisher."
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- Title Cities of the Plain
- Author Cormac McCarthy
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 304
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Knopf Publishing Group, New York
- Date 1998-05-12
- ISBN 9780679423904 / 0679423907
- Weight 1.14 lbs (0.52 kg)
- Dimensions 8.62 x 5.96 x 1.16 in (21.89 x 15.14 x 2.95 cm)
- Reading level 680
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 98011583
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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New York: Knopf, 1998. First Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. The third and final volume of the prize-winning McCarthy's, "The Border Trilogy," finds John Grady Cole and Billy Parham, in 1952 on a ranch in southern New Mexico, bound together by a kind of life based on horses and cattle and range that is still missing something and that requires regular visits across the border for whiskey and women. There, John Grady falls in love with a young prostitute with not unexpected results. First Printing, First Trade Edition (as stated). About 6 x 9 1/2 inches, 293 pages including dedication. Quarter bound in black cloth on black paper-covered boards with author's initials stamped in gold on front cover and gold lettering on spine. Top edge of text stained red. Pictorial dustjacket shows photo of a large fire burning across wheat fields (Wheat Stubble Fire, Eastern Colorada, 1992, by Larry Schwarm) on both front and back panels, photo of author on back flap. Tiny remainder dot…
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