86 BAUMAN RARE BOOKS “A Miracle In Prose, An American Original” 115MCCARTHY, Cormac. All the Pretty Horses. WITH: The Crossing. WITH: Cities of the Plain. New York, 1992-98. Three volumes. Octavo, original half black cloth, dust jackets. $1350 Scarce first editions of the three novels in McCarthy’s acclaimed “Border Trilogy.” According to The New York Times, Cormac McCarthy’s Border Trilogy is “a miracle in prose, an American original.” Composed of three works—All the Pretty Horses, The Crossing, and Cities of the Plain—the trilogy traces the lives of two young men coming into adulthood in the changing Southwest. Fine condition. “Pure Poetic Brimstone” 116MCCARTHY, Cormac. The Road. New York, 2006. Octavo, original half black paper, dust jacket. $600 First edition of McCarthy’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of a postapocalyptic world, a work of “stunning, savage beauty,” adapted to the screen in 2009 with stars Viggo Mortensen and Charlize Theron. In Cormac McCarthy’s The Road a father and son travel through a postapocalyptic world in a novel of “stunning, savage beauty… written with stripped-down urgency and fueled by the force of a universal nightmare. This is an exquisitely bleak incantation—pure poetic brimstone” (New York Times). The basis for the 2009 film starring Viggo Mortensen and Charlize Theron. A fine copy. “The Most Highly Esteemed American Poet Of The 20th Century” 117FROST, Robert. The Complete Poems of Robert Frost. New York, 1950. Two volumes. Tall octavo, original dark blue cloth, slipcase. $3600 Signed limited edition, one of 1500 copies signed by Frost, additionally signed by famed typographer Bruce Rogers and New England illustrator Thomas W. Nason. “The most highly esteemed American poet of the 20th century… [In 1957] T.S. Eliot toasted Frost as ‘perhaps the most eminent, the most distinguished Anglo-American poet now living,’ whose ‘kind of local feeling in poetry… can go without universality: the relation of Dante to Florence… of Robert Frost to New England’” (ANB). Without scarce and fragile original glassine dust jackets. LEC 208. See Crane A35. A fine copy in a mildly worn and toned slipcase.
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