A travel through a McCarthy first editions collection

CITTA’ DELLA PIANURA, THE ITALIAN EDITION OF THE THE LAST VOLUME IN THE BORDER TRILOGY

Cities of the Plain, first Italian edition, the front cover.

Città della Pianura (Cities of the Plain), first Italian edition

Einaudi, Torino, 1999

First Italian edition, first printing with complete numberlines from 0 to 7 and from 1999 to 2002 on a colophon page bound after the contents page at the end of the book. The page also reads: “Stampato…nel mese di Maggio 1999”. Hardcover, 22.3 x 14.6 cm, 334 numbered pages. Publisher’s original greenish grey cloth lettered in black on spine. White dustjacket lettered in black, featuring a detail of the painting “Wheat Stubble Fire Eastern Colorado” by Larry Schwarm on the front panel. Translated from the American by Maurizia Balmelli.

CONDITION: a fine copy in a fine dustjacket.

Published on May 1, 1999, at “Lire 30,000”, in a first print run of 15,000 copies


Cities of the Plain, first Italian edition, the colophon page.
Cities of the Plain, first Italian edition, the copyright page.

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