Crossing Volume Two Border Trilogy by Mccarthy Cormac (25 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Stated first edition. Light spotting on top edge, else near fine in a fine dust jacket.; 426 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Price NOT clipped, DJ nicely in archival wraps. Stated first edition with no subsequent printings listed. Meets all first printing points including price of $23 on DJ; black cloth hardcover boards with gilt lettering on the spine and gilt "CM" author's initials on the front board. Light shelf wear; page edges dusty; light soiling to the edges; no previous owner's writings or marks inside.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. National Book Award winner Critically acclaimed. A fine first edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Good / Good. First Edition, Stated. Previous owner name & date to front flyleaf, else unmarked. 1994. Alfred A. Knopf; NY. Hardcover. Good: black cloth spine over dark grey paper boards; gold stamped CM monogram to front cover, gold stamped title & author lettering to spine. Light shelf wear, minor corner rubbing. Binding tight, solid & square. Good dust jacket, unclipped $23.00. Light tanning along upper margins, faint surface soiling; light corner & edge wear, minor rubbing to spine ends & fold tips; else clean & bright. Light even tanning to text block edges & interior pages. Red tinted top edge unmarred; deckled fore-edge. 425 pp. Jacket design by Chip Kidd. Octavo. Second volume of the Border Trilogy, between All the Pretty Horses and Cities of the Plain, tracing sixteen-year-old Billy Parham from New Mexico into the mountains of Mexico. Ships in a box, quickly & w/care. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ SYNOPSIS & HISTORY: Originally published in 1994 by Alfred A. Knopf, The Crossing is the central volume of Cormac McCarthy's acclaimed Border Trilogy. Set in Hidalgo County, New Mexico, and the mountain wilderness of northern Mexico in the years around 1940, the narrative centers on sixteen-year-old Billy Parham following his capture of a pregnant she-wolf preying on his family's ranch. Resolving to return the animal to her native range, Billy leads her on an arduous trek across the Mexican border. Upon his return, he finds his home destroyed, his parents killed, and their horses stolen, prompting Billy and his younger brother Boyd to undertake a second journey into Mexico to reclaim their family property amidst a changing, violent landscape. Cormac McCarthy (1933-2023) earned widespread recognition as a master of modern American prose, receiving the National Book Award for All the Pretty Horses and the Pulitzer Prize for The Road. In The Crossing, McCarthy explores themes of fate, human endurance, and ecological tragedy through a prose style that balances Biblical cadence against detailed observations of the natural world. The novel is the connective narrative between All the Pretty Horses and Cities of the Plain. The Border Trilogy runs from All the Pretty Horses (1992) through The Crossing (1994) to Cities of the Plain (1998). The Knopf jacket carries graphic design by Chip Kidd. …

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. 1994 First Edition, First Thus. Gilt embossed black linen boards/Fine. DJ/NF w/a whisper of surface wear. Upper text block dyed red. To front cover verso a tidy note suggesting this was in possession of an university, or, meant to be. Historical novel of New Mexico and Mexico. Volume Two of THE BORDER TRILOGY by Cormac McCarthy (1933-2023), (following ALL THE PRETTY HORSES of 1992, and before CITIES OF THE PLAIN of 1998). Narrative of the 1930's in which Billy & Boyd are but boys, and World War II is yet to be. 16 year-old Billy Parham captures a pregnant she-wolf --- of the variety attacking New Mexico cattle --- Billy journeys across the borders to re-settle her back to Mexican mountains. In the 2nd "crossing", Billy & younger brother Boyd go south to recover horses stolen from their family's farm --- Boyd is shot, nursed to health, disappears w/a girl. "Crossing" 3 narrates Billy's attempt to track down his lost brother. 426 pgs in 4 parts.…

Soft cover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: None as Issued. First Edition, 5th Printing. Text/Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. 1994 First Edition, 5th Printing. Softcover/Fine. Book Two of The Border Trilogy from Cormac McCarthy, (born Charles Joseph McCarthy Jr. (1933 - 2023). celebrated American novelist. THE CROSSING is sequel to ALL THE PRETTY HORSES (1992), and, is followed by CITIES OF THE PLAIN (1998). This novel is set in the 1930's years of the Great Depression, when brothers Billy & Boyd were but boys, and World War II is yet to be. 16 year-old Billy Parham captures a pregnant she-wolf on their ranch in New Mexico where wolves attacked cattle. Billy nurses the wolf for re-homing back to the mountains of Mexico --- this is the 1st of 3 "crossings". "Crossing" 2, tells of Billy & brother Boyd's trip south to recover horses stolen from their family's spread --- Boyd is shot, nursed to health, to disappear w/a girl. "Crossing" 3 is a narrative of Billy's attempt to locate his lost brother. 426 pgs in 4 parts.…

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. This is an As New and Unread copy of the first edition (1st printing).

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First UK edition first printing hardback, 1994, with unclipped jacket. In overall very good used condition with only slight signs of age, handling and storage - dust jacket a touch rubbed; boards clean and crisp. Binding tight and appears little read. Internally clean, no annotation or inscriptions; text bright and clear throughout. Photographs available. Not an old library book.…

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York, New York, USA, 1994. First Printing of First Edition (stated with no further printings). As New in an As New Dust Jacket. Appears Unread. The Text Block is clean, white, quite tight, straight and square, with red topstain, deckled fore-edges, and no markings of any kind. The Binding is black quarter cloth to black boards, color uniform throughout, with author's initials embossed in bright gilt on the front board, bright gilt title, etc., to spine and all corners square and sharp. The Dust Jacket is flawless - uniformly bright and fully intact with the original prices (USA $23.00 Canada $29.95) intact on front flap and date ("6/94") on rear flap. See photos. 426 pages. 5 3/4" x 8 5/8". The second volume in The Border Trilogy, ISBN 10: 0394574753 / ISBN 13: 9780394574752 We also have All the Pretty Horses and Cities of the Plain for sale.…

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. 1994 First Edition, First Thus. Gilt embossed black linen boards/Fine. DJ/NF w/a whisper of discoloration & faint creasing to front inner flap. Trace brown spotting (acidic paper reaction to front & rear endpapers. Upper text edge dyed red. Historical novel of New Mexico and Mexico. Volume Two of Cormac McCarthy's (1933-2023) THE BORDER TRILOGY (following All the Pretty Horses of 1992, and before Cities of the Plain of 1998) in which Billy & Boyd are but boys, and World War II is yet to be. 16 year-old Billy Parham captures a pregnant she-wolf --- of the variety attacking New Mexico cattle; the two journey to re-settle her back Mexican mountains. In the 2nd "crossing", Billy & younger brother Boyd travel south to recover horses stolen from their family's farm --- Boyd is shot, nursed to health, to disappear w/a girl. "Crossing" 3 narrates Billy's attempt to track down his lost brother. 426 pgs in 4 parts. …

Hard Cover. Condition: VG+. Dust Jacket Condition: VG+. Fourth Printing. VG+/VG+. 8vo. original black cloth backed boards (slightly rubbed & marked) in dustwrapper priced $23.00 (slightly rubbed & marked); pp. [vi], 426 (last blank). A very good copy.

First edition. 8vo. 426 pp. Hardcover binding in unclipped dustwrapper, fine condition. (10302).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine. First Edition. 426 pp, stated First Edition. Collectible. Binding tight, pages clean and unmarked, exterior crisp with no wear. 6" x 8.7" black 1/4 cloth backing & slate gray paper covered boards, in illustrated white DJ - unclipped in protector. Size: Octavo. Book. …

Hard Cover. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: VG. First UK. VG/VG. 8vo. original black boards gilt (a little rubbed & bumped, slightly marked) in dustwrapper priced £14.99 (a little rubbed & frayed, some creasing & marking); pp. [iv], 426. A very good copy.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. The Border Trilogy Volume Two.

Hardcover. Condition: NEW CONDITION. Dust Jacket Condition: NEW DUST JACKET. First Edition, First Printing. // NO REMAINDER MARK// NO PREVIOUS OWNER MARKS OF ANY KIND (no names or inscriptions, no bookplate, no underlining, etc) // NOT PRICE CLIPPED// NEW MYLAR COVER//.

First Edition, First Printing in U.K. -- Hardcover. Condition: near fine (lower corners have tiny bump) with near fine dust jacket. *Nice collectible copy, no marks or price-clip* ISBN 033033462X.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Very Fine in a very fine dust jacket. Publisher's original price intact on jacket flap ($23.00). Comes with archival-quality mylar dust jacket protector. A tight, clean copy with no faults. Octavo, 426 pages. "The Crossing" follows Billy Parham, a teenage cowboy in New Mexico, on a series of border crossings into Mexico with a captured wolf, and later in pursuit of his stolen horses, in a story of violence, loss, and stoic endurance. McCarthy (1933 2023) was an American novelist who won the Pulitzer Prize for "The Road" and whose works "No Country for Old Men" and "All the Pretty Horses" were adapted into major films. "The Crossing" is the second volume of McCarthy's celebrated Border Trilogy, between "All the Pretty Horses" (1992) and "Cities of the Plain" (1998).…

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. Lot of 3 new/unread books still wrapped together in original publishers brown paper wraps - publishers brick of the new books. Fresh from a publisher's shipping box lot of unwrapped books. Increasingly hard to find in such unread/unopened/pristine condition. Each book is a stated first edition with no subsequent printings listed. Meet all first printing points including price of $23 on DJ; black cloth hardcover boards with gilt lettering on the spine and gilt "CM" author's initials on the front board. This is for a lot of 3 new copies of The Crossing.…

First Edition. 8vo. pp.iv + 426. Original quarter black cloth hardcover titles in silver. Deckled long fore edge. Rust stained top fore edge.Fine in complete pictorial dustwrapper with sepia illustration. Original price $23 and 6/94 on rear dustwrapper. "Set on the south-western ranches in the years before the Second World War, The Crossing follows the fortunes of sixteen-year-old Billy and his younger brother Boyd. Fascinated by an elusive wolf that has been marauding his family's property, Billy captures the animal but rather than kill it, sets out impulsively for the mountains of Mexico to return it to where it came from. ".…

First Edition, first printing. 8vo, publisher's original cloth backed boards, in the original illustrated dustjacket. 426 pp. A fine copy in a fine dustjacket, light mellowing to the dustjacket. FIRST EDITION. The second installment in McCarthy's famed "Border Trilogy" which also included "All the Pretty Horses' and 'Cities of the Plain'. THE CROSSING is the initiation story of 16 year old Billy Parham and his younger brother Boyd. The novel, set just before and during World War II, is structured around three border crossings from New Mexico into Mexico. Each trip tests Billy as he must try to salvage something once he fails in his original goal. On both his first and last quest he is reduced (or perhaps exalted) to some symbolic futile gesture in his attempt, against all obstacles, to maintain his integrity and to be true to his moral obligations. This novel explores such issues as guilt, the acquisition of wisdom, heroism, and the crucial importance of stories.…

4to. iv, 421 pp. black paper spine and rear wrapper, front "wrapper" of heavy acetate. Uncommon version of the uncorrected proof. A little wear at the head of the paper spine, else very good.

Hardcover with dust jacket. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Limited Edition. 8vo. Pp. [4], 5 - 425, [1]. Bound in half black cloth over black paper-covered boards., "CM" lettered in gilt on the front board, gilt lettering on spine. Light sunning to tail of spine. In the dust jacket that shows a spot of sunning to fold between spine and front panel, small crease to lower front flap, now mellowed. Price of $23.00 intact on front flap. Edition limited to 1000 copies "especially prepared for friends of the author and publisher" this is signed by McCarthy below that limitation statement. A handsome, presentable copy with dust jacket now housed in a removable, clear archival protector.…

First Edition, second printing. 8vo, pp. 426. A near fine copy in dj.

First Edition. 8vo, pp. 426. A near fine copy in dj.