Los Angeles, Sun & Moon Press, 1985 and 1986. The three volumes of his acclaimed New York Trilogy. Signed by Auster in the second and third volumes. City of Glass was nominated for an Edgar Award, given each year by the Mystery Writers of America for the best mystery novel of the year. Prior to City of Glass, Auster had been known as a poet, translator and essayist, but his fiction was little-known and generally considered to be of the post-modern, meta-fiction variety. His Edgar nomination -- and his deliberate use of the conventions of the mystery genre as a frame on which to hang a metaphysical and meta-fictional exposition -- served as a breakthrough for him to a much wider audience, after years of being published by small presses (his own included). Each volume is fine in a fine dust jacket, with City of Glass being in the first issue dust jacket.   [#911193] SOLD

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