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.
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), is 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 portrays a writer in a creative slump, taking its title from the 'Locked Room' mysteries of early detective fiction.
SKU: 2120077
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.
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), is 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 portrays a writer in a creative slump, taking its title from the 'Locked Room' mysteries of early detective fiction.
SKU: 2120077
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