McCarthy (Cormac) All the Pretty Horses
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New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1992.
First edition, first printing. 8vo. Original black cloth lettered in gilt. Dust-jacket, priced $11.00.
The first edition of the first book in the ‘Border trilogy’ by the recently deceased Cormac McCarthy, a best-selling work that was adapted into a 2000 film starring Matt Damon and Penélope Cruz, directed by Billy Bob Thornton.
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NF/NF, personal library sticker to front end paper, contents clean, in NF unclipped wrapper, US 1st ed.
Bobby Block (bookplate).
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