City of Glass (volume 1, New York Trilogy) -- 3rd printing
by Paul Auster
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0940650525
- ISBN 13
- 9780940650527
- Seller
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About This Item
Los Angeles, California: Sun & Moon Press, December 1985. Reprint. Cloth . Very Good/Very Good. Octavo in clean, bright jacket. Vertical crease down middle of front flap. Flap not cllipped. Denim blue cloth covered boards with gold lettering on spine. End papers blue of similar tone. A brush of wear at corners and spine base. States: 'First Edition' on copyright page. This is number string: 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3. Therefore, this copy is a 3rd printing/First Edition. Tight binding. Clean, sound, without markings. City of Glass was Auster's 2nd novel and the first published under is own name. (Prior to this one, Squeeze Play (1984) (Written under pseudonym Paul Benjamin, 1984). City of Glass was the first volume of his The New York Trilogy, to be followed by Ghosts (1986) and Locked Room (1986). These three novels work well as stand alone stories. There is no reason to feel obligated to read them in order. Honestly there is no reason to read them all, other than the fact they are excellent, arguably the best books of Austers long, still active at age 75. In 2021 he published Burning Boy: The Life and Work of Stephen Crane, a non-fiction work that might be my favorite book of that year. [203 pages]
Synopsis
Nominated for an Edgar Award for Best Mystery of the Year, City of Glass inaugurates the intriguing New York Trilogy of novels that the Washington Post Book World has classified as "post-existentialist private eye...It's as if Kafka has gotten hooked on the gumshoe game and penned his own ever-spiraling version." As a result of a strange phone call in the middle of the night, Quinn, a writer of detective fiction and crime books, becomes enmeshed in a case more puzzling than any he might have written. New York Times -bestselling author Paul Auster combines dark humor with Hitchcock-like suspense to City of Glass.
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- A Cappella Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 274266
- Title
- City of Glass (volume 1, New York Trilogy) -- 3rd printing
- Author
- Paul Auster
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0940650525
- ISBN 13
- 9780940650527
- Publisher
- Sun & Moon Press
- Place of Publication
- Los Angeles, California
- Date Published
- December 1985
- Pages
- 203
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A Cappella Books is a full service used, new & out-of-print bookstore located in the heart of Atlanta's bohemian district, Little 5 Points, since 1989. We stock a general selection of some 20 to 30, 000 paperbacks & hardcovers, ranging from the common to the quite scarce. Our specialties reflect the personality of our neighborhood and, to varying degrees, our staff. But don't be fooled, we really have something for almost everybody who loves books. Come see us.
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