MCCARTHY, CORMAC - Cities of the Plain

New York, Alfred A. Knopf. 1998, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, 8vo. [vi] 295pp. Black boards, black cloth spine with silver to front and spine. Publisher's blind-stamp design to rear. Top-edge tinted red, fore-edge untrimmed. Original decorative unclipped dustjacket designed by Chip Kidd, with portrait of McCarthy on rear flap by Marion Ettlinger. An excellent first edition of the final volume of The Border Trilogy, set in the New Mexico landscape with its terrible beauty in the 1950s. Fine/Fine.