AUSTER, Paul. The New York Trilogy. Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, 1994.
8vo. Rust-coloured publisher's cloth, backstrip lettered in silver; in the original unclipped pictorial dust jacket, showing a photograph of the city skyline; grey endpapers; pp. [ix], 10-464, [viii]; spine ends compressed, some ink finger marks to the outer edge of pages; else near-fine in the like dust jacket which is a touch creased to extremities, a couple of minor dirt marks the only other defects.
First American collected edition of the New York Trilogy, with full number line 1-10. Comprising City of Glass, Ghosts and The Locked Room, the volume is presented here for the first time in a cloth binding.
“Shines with intelligence and originality” (Don DeLillo)~
The three interconnected detective stories published here published together as The New York Trilogy are the works that made Auster's name. City of Glass (1985), the story of a private investigator who descends into madness; Ghosts, published the following year, follows a private eye immersed in the life of the man he is investigating. The Locked Room~I~ portrays a writer in a creative slump, taking its title from the 'Locked Room' mysteries of early detective fiction.
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