City of Glass by Paul Auster












City of Glass by Paul Auster
Los Angeles: Sun & Moon, (1985). First edition, 1st printing. 8vo. 203 pp. Original full navy cloth boards, stamped in gold, in original unclipped ($13.95) first-issue dust jacket (without spine logo) shows light wear. Trace edge wear - particular to spine, faint handling smudges and surface scratches. Small horizontal ghost mark from previous mylar tape. Light sunning to spine. Light curling to spine ends. Protected in archival mylar. Book is tight, square and firm. Mild forward lean. Light wear to edges. Tape to panels at top and bottom boards. Stamps to paste-downs and endpapers. Library pocket to rear free end paper. Ex-library book. A scarce first edition.
Dust Jacket: Very Good
Hardcover: Acceptable
“The New York Trilogy is a series of novels by American writer Paul Auster. Originally published sequentially as City of Glass (1985), Ghosts (1986) and The Locked Room (1986), it has since been collected into a single volume. The Trilogy is a postmodern interpretation of detective and mystery fiction, exploring various philosophical themes. "Over the past twenty-five years," opined Michael Dirda in The New York Review of Books in 2008, "Paul Auster has established one of the most distinctive niches in contemporary literature."
