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This handsome hardcover first edition of Cormac McCarthy's The Crossing — the second volume of his celebrated Border Trilogy — is in fine condition, with a very good dust jacket showing light wear around the edges. First edition, first printing, as stated on the copyright page. This is a Borzoi Book, published by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto, 1994. Manufactured by The Haddon Craftsmen. Cormac McCarthy is widely regarded as one of the greatest American novelists of his generation. The Crossing follows All the Pretty Horses (1992), which won both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and precedes Cities of the Plain (1998), completing the trilogy. Set along the New Mexico-Mexico border in the late 1930s, the novel follows sixteen-year-old Billy Parham as he captures a wolf marauding his family's ranch and decides, rather than killing it, to return it to the mountains of Mexico — a crossing that draws him into a haunting, often dreamlike journey. The New York Times Book Review called the trilogy "a miracle in prose, an American original." ISBN 0-394-57475-3. Ships within Canada.