Cormac McCarthy – The Crossing – First US Edition 1994
£85.00
A first edition, first printing of The Crossing by Cormac McCarthy, published by Knopf, New York in 1994. A near fine copy free from internal inscriptions, three-quarter boards bound in black paper with author’s gilt debossed initials to the front board, black cloth to the spine with gilt titling, red top stain to the text block with some light spotting, spotting to the deckle edge of text block. In a near fine unclipped wrapper with bumping to the spine tips and bumping to the knuckles of front and rear flap folds.
The Crossing is the second novel in Cormac McCarthy’s Border Trilogy. It follows cowboy Billy Parham as he journeys between New Mexico and Mexico, first attempting to return a captured wolf to the wild and later searching for stolen horses and his lost brother. Stark, philosophical and elegiac, the novel explores fate, violence, grief, identity and the porous boundary between civilisation and wilderness, with McCarthy’s austere prose giving the story mythic power.
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A first edition, first printing of The Crossing by Cormac McCarthy, published by Knopf, New York in 1994. A near fine copy free from internal inscriptions, three-quarter boards bound in black paper with author’s gilt debossed initials to the front board, black cloth to the spine with gilt titling, red top stain to the text block with some light spotting, spotting to the deckle edge of text block. In a near fine unclipped wrapper with bumping to the spine tips and bumping to the knuckles of front and rear flap folds.
The Crossing is the second novel in Cormac McCarthy’s Border Trilogy. It follows cowboy Billy Parham as he journeys between New Mexico and Mexico, first attempting to return a captured wolf to the wild and later searching for stolen horses and his lost brother. Stark, philosophical and elegiac, the novel explores fate, violence, grief, identity and the porous boundary between civilisation and wilderness, with McCarthy’s austere prose giving the story mythic power.
