All the Pretty Horses

New York: Knopf, (1992). First edition, 1st printing. 8vo. 301 pp. Original quarter black cloth over black paper-covered boards, stamped in gold, in original unclipped ($21.95) dust-jacket. trivial wear to jacket, nearly as new. Protected in archival mylar. Book is very tight, firm, faintest lean. Spine crown lightly curled, trace fade to top edges. A few nicks to page edges. Likely unread. Collector’s copy, especially so with the review materials and 5x7 photo laid in.

Dust Jacket: Fine

Hardcover: Fine

“All the Pretty Horses is a novel by American author Cormac McCarthy published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1992. Its romanticism, contrasting with the bleakness of Blood Meridian, McCarthy's earlier work, brought the writer much public attention. It was a bestseller, and it won both the U.S. National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. It is also the first of McCarthy's "Border Trilogy". The book was adapted as a 2000 film starring Matt Damon and Penélope Cruz and directed by Billy Bob Thornton. All the books of the "Border Trilogy" are written in an unconventional format which omits traditional Western punctuation such as quotation marks and makes use of polysyndetic syntax in a manner similar to that of Ernest Hemingway.”