All The Pretty Horses

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY McCARTHY: "For Jim / All best / Your friend / Cormac." "Winner of the 1992 National Book Award and the 1992 National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction, Cormac McCarthy's sixth novel, All The Pretty Horses, simultaneously recapitulates and transcends many of the themes, situations, structures, and characters of his earlier work..." (Arnold and Luce, Perspectives on Cormac McCarthy). The first volume in McCarthy's acclaimed The Border Trilogy.

Inscribed by McCarthy in ink of the front free endpaper. Provenance: Directly from the the recipient, (truncated) Jim McDade, a friend of McCarthy's.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992. Octavo, original cloth, original dust jacket. Abrasion from an erasure on top right of the inscribed page (the front free endpaper); otherwise fine. Signed copies, particularly with a personalized inscription, are exceptionally rare. (Inventory #: 2940)