Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Auster, Paul. City of Glass. Sun & Moon Press, Los Angeles, 1985.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 203pp, blue cloth boards with titles on spine in gold. Spine is straight, binding is tight, and corners are square. Blue textured front and rear endpapers. Pages are crisp and bright, text block is clean and unmarked, page corners are square. Bright, stiff jacket with pictorial front and Auster's photo on the back below a Russell Banks blurb. Book is from the New American Fiction series, #4 in the run. City of Glass was the first volume of Auster's acclaimed and influential New York Trilogy.
Seller: The Chatham Bookseller, Madison, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: ALL THREE BOOKS SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the title pages. v.1: second printing; v.2: first printing; v.3: first printing. All Ex-Library, v.1-3 have tape shadows on cover, label shadows on free front endpapers. v.1-2 have date stamps on copyright pages. v.1 & 3 have small green marks on top edge of block. The dustjackets of all 3 books are in near fine condition, having been protected by Brodarts. All things considered, still a very presentable collection.
Seller: Great Northern Books, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
Auster, Paul. City of Glass (New York Trilogy). Sun & Moon Pr, 1985.
Price: US$220.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition, Third printing, Signed by author on title page. Fine book in fine dust jacket. As in pictures.
Seller: Macklin Mystery Books, Miami, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: New American Fiction Series: 4-6. The first volume is a third printing, the second and third volumes are first printings. Each volume is near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Seller: Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB, Springfield, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Description: All three volumes near fine, with light dust on the top edge, all three dust jackets also near fine with the exception of volume three, which has two small stains on the spine between the title and the author lettering. Volume 1 has the previous owner's name on the ffep in biro. All editions first printings with a full number line.
Seller: Westsider Rare & Used Books Inc., New York, NY, U.S.A.
Auster, Paul. CITY OF GLASS (NEW YORK TRILOGY). Sun & Moon Pr, 1985.
Price: US$398.56 + shipping
Condition: New
Description: In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! 1.57
Seller: BennettBooksLtd, North Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.
Auster, Paul. City of Glass (New York Trilogy). Sun & Moon Pr, 1985.
Price: US$420.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near fine. 1st Edition. Sun and Moon Press. Los Angeles. 1985. Stated First Edition; with a full numberline; 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. $13.95 Price. Pencil inscription from dealer on inside cover page. As in pictures.
Seller: Macklin Mystery Books, Miami, FL, U.S.A.
Auster, Paul. City of Glass (New York Trilogy). Sun & Moon Pr, 1985.
Price: US$580.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Signed. First Edition. Signed by author. First edition stated, second printing. DJ in very good condition, only slight edgewear. Pages clean and bright with no aging. Binding tight. Pictures available upon request.
Seller: Webster's Bookstore Cafe, Inc., State College, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Description: 3 vols. 8vo, publisher's cloth in dust jackets. First editions. The dust jacket of City of Glass is in the second state; a sticker bearing the publisher's imprint was plainly added to the spine and has now been lost (some of the adhesive remains). These are fine copies in fine dust jackets.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Auster, Paul. City of Glass (New York Trilogy) Auster, Paul. Sun & Moon Pr, 1985.
Price: US$895.00 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: Signed by author Paul Auster on title page. Hardcover with fine dust jacket. Book is in Excellent condition, pages are clean and tight.
Seller: Broad Street Books, Branchville, NJ, U.S.A.
AUSTER, PAUL. GHOSTS. SUN & MOON PRESS PUB 1985, LOS ANGELES CA, 1985.
Price: US$950.00 + shipping
Description: UNCORRECTED PAGE PROOF OF THE SECOND VOLUME OF "THE NEW YORK TRILOGY" BOOK IS ABOUT FINE WITH A TRACE OF TONING/DUSTING TO THE WRAPS. A BEUATIFUL CLEAN COPY OF A VERY SCARCE PROOF. NEAR FINE IN OFF WHITE PRINTED WRAPS
Seller: JOHN LUTSCHAK BOOKS, BURLINGTON, WI, U.S.A.
Price: US$1395.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Sun and Moon Press. Los Angeles. 1985. 203 pages. $13.95 price intact on rear of DJ. Original first issue jacket in super-rare first state; without the publisher's seal on the spine. Stated First Edition; in the rare first printing; with a full numberline; 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. The DJ is Fine; only flaw keeping this from As-New status is mild toning to spine. The book is currently in lesser shape. This copy has been set aside for years waiting for me to get around to sending it for some restorative love; but have decided to list it until I get around to it. The panels are clean aside from still-sticky tape ghosts that can be neutralized. Rear endpapers are bright and clean; only faint taper-ghost outline; and navy blue endpapers hide it well. The front pastedown is clean; the FFEP is a 1 inch stub from top to bottom. Slightest faint bleed from navy endpapers; not bad. Half-title page has a small address label size outline scratch. Slight lean; first few pages have faint wave at edge. No stamps, writing or anything else other than noted. So yes it needs some love to breathe new life into it; but considering how rare true first printings in first state DJs are; it is worth the investment. Rare first state DJ is fine; with a flawed first printing book; with potential and legs.
Seller: Medium Rare Books, Mountainside, NJ, U.S.A.
Auster, Paul. City of Glass. Sun and Moon Press, Los Angeles, 1985.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Uncorrected page proof of Auster's breakout novel, the first in the New York Trilogy. Near fine in gray wrappers. Laid in to this copy is the scarce one-page publisher's promotional sheet. Folded, else fine. One of the scarcer uncorrected proofs of the last 30 years.
Seller: Derringer Books, Member ABAA, Avon, CT, U.S.A.
AUSTER, Paul. City of Glass. Sun & Moon Press, Los Angeles, 1985.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Uncorrected proof. Printed gray wrappers. Faint bump at the bottom of the front wrap and the first few leaves, a nice, near fine copy. The first volume in Auster's *New York Trilogy*.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$2241.51 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: A 3 Vols Set : The New York Trilogy : 'City Of Glass', 'Ghosts' & 'The Locked Room'. All three books are the First USA printings published by Sun and Moon Press, Los Angeles in 1985 and 1986. All have the full number line and state 'First Edition'. The BOOKS are all in near Fine condition. Light pushing at the spine ends to Vol.1. All are free from inscriptions. The WRAPPERS are complete and are in near Fine condition The wrapper of 'City of Glass' is in the second state; the spine is slightly toned and there is a barely visible outline where the small sticker bearing the publisher's imprint was plainly tipped to the spine. This sticker is now loosely inserted. There is no difference between the first and second state wrappers apart from when the publishers realised they had omitted the publishers imprint on the printed wrapper, they produced some small paper imprints to be tipped on to the spine of the wrapper. Most of these have inevitably fallen off over the passage of time but this one is loosely inserted. With this set is also included the third state wrapper where the publisher's imprint has been incorporated into the printed wrapper and additional logo designs have been added to the flaps. The wrappers are protected in removable Brodart archival covers. All three volumes have been signed (without dedication) by the author to the title page. Paul Auster's classic meta-fictional detective story with his signature theme of the search for identity and his brand of American existentialism. A sharp set of the author's classic work. More images available on request. Ashton Rare Books welcomes direct contact.
Seller: Ashton Rare Books ABA : PBFA : ILAB, Market Harborough, United Kingdom
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Description: First Editions. Octavos. A lovely set of Paul Auster's postmodern detective trilogy, each SIGNED to title pages in black ink. City of Glass in the elusive first state jacket, without publisher's seal on spine. Fine copies in blue cloth boards. In unclipped, illustrated jackets; near fine, save for mild sunning to rear panels. Complete set housed in custom clamshell case, featuring three faux spines with leather lettering pieces.
Seller: Harper's Books, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$3398.40 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: "Los Angeles, Sun and Moon Press, 1985, 1986. 3 volumes. Couverture rigide, 203, 96 et 179 pp. Reliure éditeur avec jaquette illustrée. COMPLET SET OF SIGNED FIRST EDITION. City of Glass in the first issue jacket without the publisher's seal on the spine. The Locked Room is also inscribed. The New York Trilogy is perhaps the most astonishing work by one of Americas most consistently astonishing writers. The Trilogy is three cleverly interconnected novels that exploit the elements of standard detective fiction and achieve a new genre that is all the more gripping for its starkness. It is a riveting work of detective fiction worthy of Raymond Chandler, and at the same time a profound and unsettling existentialist enquiry in the tradition of Kafka or Borges. "Marks a new departure for the American novel." Observer "A shatteringly clever piece of work . . . Utterly gripping, written with an acid sharpness that leaves an indelible dent in the back of the mind." Sunday Telegraph "The New York Trilogy established him as the only author one could compare to Samuel Beckett." Guardian. BEAUTIFUL SET IN PERFECT CONDITION."
Seller: Librairie le pas sage, PARIS, France
Price: US$3500.00 + shipping
Description: First editionsÂof Paul Austerâs detective novels, each signed by him on the title page. Octavo, original cloth.ÂCity of GlassÂin first-state dust jacket, with no publisherâs device at spine foot. Each are signed by Paul Auster on the title page. Each are fine in a fine dust jackets. An exceptional set. âPaul Austerâs groundbreaking New York Trilogy could give meta-fiction good name⦠Theyâre wickedly clever brain-ticklersâ (Los Angeles Herald-Examiner). This critically praised series of three novels turn âthe detective genre into something tonier: the gumshoes in their chilly pages keep meeting doppelgangers and spitting out references to Don Quixote and Hawthorne and Thoreau. And the more they stalk their eccentric quarry, the more they seem actually to be stalking the Big Questionsâ"the implications of authorship, the enigmas of epistemology, the veils and masks of languageâ (New York Times).
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$3950.92 + shipping
Condition: New
Description: 1. City of Glass - The New York Trilogy, Volume 1. Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press: 1985. First Edition, First Printing. A fine copy in a fine dustwrapper, the spine of which has the NAF logo printed on. Inscribed by the author on the title page upon publication: "For Richard / Paul Auster". Additionally signed in silver on the front free endpaper at a later date. 2. Ghosts - The New York Trilogy, Volume 2. Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press: 1986. First Edition, First Printing. A fine copy in a fine dustwrapper. Inscribed by the author on the title page upon publication: "For Richard / Paul Auster". Additionally signed in silver on the rear free endpaper at a later date. 3. The Locked Room - The New York Trilogy, Volume 3. Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press: 1986. First Edition, First Printing. A fine copy in a fine dustwrapper. Inscribed by the author on the title page upon publication: "For Richard / Paul Auster". Additionally signed in silver on the rear free endpaper at a later date. 4. Moon Palace. New York: Viking, 1989. First Edition, First Printing. Apart from a remainder mark on the bottom edge, a fine copy in a fine dustwrapper. Signed by the author on the title page. 5. Auggie Wren s Christmas Story. Birmingham: The Delos Press, 1992. First Edition, First Printing. Copy No. 63 of the 100 copies quarter bound in buckram and signed by the author. A fine copy, additionally signed in silver by Auster on the front board. 6. The Book of Illusions. London: Faber and Faber, 2002. First Edition, First Printing. A fine copy in a fine dustwrapper. Signed by the author on the title page. Please note that due to size and weight we will have to charge additional postage. These items part of our Authors' Collections Catalogue 13, which you can download at ygrbooks.
Seller: Yves G. Rittener - YGRbookS, Zürich, Switzerland
Price: US$3950.92 + shipping
Condition: New
Description: First Editions. First Printings of all three volumes. Fine copies in fine dustwrappers. The logo on the spine of the dustwrapper of City of Glass printed on. All three volumes beautifully inscribed by the author on the title pages upon publication: "For Richard / Paul Auster", and later additionally signed in silver by the author on the front free endpaper of Volume 1 and the rear free endpapers of Volumes 2 & 3. A truly spectacular (doubly) signed set of the postmodernist classic of detective fiction. Highly recommended and here to stay for time to come. These items are part of our Catalogue 5: 100 Key Books.
Seller: Yves G. Rittener - YGRbookS, Zürich, Switzerland
Price: US$4000.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: One of 26 lettered sets. First Edition/First Printing. City of Glass of an edition of 26 signed copies this book is copy V with Paul Auster's signature beneath. Ghosts is a limited signed edition of 26 copies, this book is copy letter E with Paul Auster's signature beneath. The Locked Room of a limited signed edition of 26 copies this copy is letter O with Paul Auster's signature beneath. In brodart archival covers. No price clips. Number lines all end in 1. City of Glass is also signed and inscribed on the title page "For _____, Paul Auster in Los Angeles-August 12, 1986."
Seller: Binx Books, Tucson, AZ, U.S.A.