Cities of the Red Night (First Edition)

William S. Burroughs

ISBN 10: 0030539765 / ISBN 13: 9780030539763

Published by Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York, 1981

About this Item

Holt, 1981, New York. First edition. First printing, with full number line. A clean copy with price ($14.95) intact on front flap. Comes with archival-quality jacket protector. Fine in a fine jacket. This is the first novel in his final trilogy of novels, known as The Red Night Trilogy, followed by The Place of Dead Roads (1983) and The Western Lands (1987).

Seller Inventory # FLAHIVE-3188

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Cities of the Red Night (First Edition)
• Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York
• Publication Date: 1981
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0030539765
• ISBN 13: 9780030539763
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

About this title

Synopsis

332pp. 1st printing. DJ: Very Good++ w/ very minute wears on corners. The Book: Very Good++ w/ minute tanning from aging.

About the Author

William S. Burroughs was born in St. Louis in 1914. He is best-known work is 1959's Naked Lunch―which became the focus of a landmark 1962 Supreme Court decision that helped eliminate literary censorship in the United States. Described by Norman Mailer as one of America's few writers genuinely "possessed by genius," he died in 1997. His many other works include Junky and The Place of Dead Roads (Picador).