The New York Trilogy: City of Glass; Ghosts; The Locked Room

3 volumes. 8vo. 1st editions. Vol. 1 in 2nd issue d.j., although the sticker has been removed. Minor edgewear to boards. Very slight bowing to boards of vols 2 & 3. Slight soiling to edges of textblock. Small brown mark near fore-edge of pp 28-31 of vol 1. Faint fading to vol 1 d.j. near spine. Tiny closed tear to rear panel of vol 2 d.j. Mild yellowing and a touch of rubbing, soiling & edgewear to d.j.s overall. NF/NF. THE SET: Paul Auster's New York Trilogy deftly combines elements of postmodernism with the devices of detective genre fiction, like an odd but beautiful love-child of Samuel Beckett and Raymond Chandler. Dappled with ambiguity and nearly absurd at points (Paul Auster himself makes an appearance), the Trilogy somehow manages to tackle complex issues of the reliability of words and their associations, while remaining a compelling narrative. This set contains first editions in jackets of all three books: City of Glass, Ghosts, and The Locked Room.