THE CROSSING.**

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn. [Complete number line 1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2. Volume 2 of The Border Trilogy that began with 'All The Pretty Horses' and ended with The Cities of the Plains'.Uncommon.] FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated, colour photographic illustrated dw/dj,with black and silver gilt lettering; with negligible shelf- wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top edges bright and clean with merest hint of dust-soiling, fore edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - virtually pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation. Publisher's bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,
original plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked silver gilt letters to spine/backstrip,a white headband and immaculate plain pale grey endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj, 1st edn,5-425pp [paginated] includes 4 sections/chapters; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,title separator page and 2pp blanks at the rear. Living in Hildago County,New Mexico,in the years before the Second World War,Billy and Boyd Parham are teenage brothers,both seeking adventure but neither realizing that they live on the cusp of unimaginable events.First comes a
trespassing Indian and the dream of wolves running wild amongst the cattle lately brought on to the plains by settlers.Billy sets forth to trap a she-wolf that has thwarted his father and which he will return to the mountains of Mexico.
While he returns home after a long absence he finds everything he left behind utterly transformed,and it is only his brother Boyd who reminds him of the past.
Together they strike out yet again in order to reclaim what is theirs - thus crossing into 'that antique gaze from whence there could be no way back forever'.
What they find instead is an extraordinary panoply of fiestas and circuses,dogs and horses and hawks,pilgrims and revolutionaries,grand haciendas and forlorn cantinas, bandits and gypsies and roving tribes,a young girl alone on the road,a mystery in the mountain wilds and a myth in the making.
'The Crossing' is as magisterial and breathtaking a novel as you are likely to encounter.It is,without doubt,a masterpiece,a book that touches,stops and starts the heart and mind at once and affirms the power of fiction to amaze. Please contact seller,because of the weight and the value of this item for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!
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