NY, Knopf, 1991. A 1991 advance copy of the first volume of the Border Trilogy, a landmark novel, published in 1992, that won both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award and propelled its author to "instant" literary celebrity -- after a quarter century of writing well-received literary novels in relative obscurity. 8-1/2" x 11" bound galleys. The cover sheet is a printed letter from Sonny Mehta at Knopf dated November 20, 1991 and addressed "Dear Bookseller," calling All the Pretty Horses "Cormac's break-through" and "an extraordinary event in American fiction." Mehta continued to promote the novel, issuing regular proofs as well as a collectible boxed advance copy that McCarthy signed, and succeeded in bringing the book and its author the kind of attention that had previously eluded him: All the Pretty Horses sold several times more hardcover copies than all five of McCarthy's previous books combined, and then went on to win the awards mentioned earlier. Covers of cardstock and acetate; a bit of rubbing to the cardstock edges, else fine. [#028957] SOLD