The source for the issue date of the proof and the number of copies printed is a paper produced around 2010 by the Picador marketing department (Rebecca Ikin and Ellen Wood), prepared at the request of a graphic designer who collected Picador proofs.

Copies with a publisher’s letter laid in have been noted.

COLLECTING TOPICS: This proof is uncommon. However, unfaded copies are increasingly scarce. It is one of McCarthy’s items that has experienced a spectacular rise in price following the publication of The Passenger and Stella Maris and, later, the death of the great writer. Before that, a near fine copy could be purchased in the $100–$150 range, sometimes for even less. For example, the collector Al Selberg recalls that he purchased two copies in gorgeous condition for $30-40 soon after the publication. However, still in 2019 a lot including near fine to fine English proofs of The Crossing, Cities of the Plain, and No Country for Old Men offered by Swann Galleries with a starting price of $150 — went unsold. In 2023, many copies appeared on the market as part of a wave of realized investments. By June, four copies were available in the $500–$1,100 price range. As of August 2025, four copies (not the same) remain on the market, priced between $500 and $1500.