First edition, first printing of McCarthy's seventh novel and the second entry in his acclaimed Border Trilogy. Signed by McCarthy to the first blank following the endpaper, with the Krock's & Brentano's First Edition Circle bookmark laid in. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994. Publisher's original black cloth spine over black paper-covered boards, lettered in gilt; pp. (viii), 426. A fine copy in a near fine or better, unclipped dust jacket showing the slightest traces of shelfwear. A very nice copy, protected in archival mylar.