BURROUGHS, William S. The Red Night Trilogy, comprising Cities of the Red Night, The Place of Dead Roads, and The Western Lands. London: John Calder and Picador. 1981-1987. 8vos. First British editions, first printings, the first published by Calder, the final novel by Picador. Publisher’s original cloth lettered in gilt, in the dust jackets. The set about fine, the boards clean and bright, the contents fine but with some offset toning to prelims of the second volume from a loosely inserted clipping. The dust jackets unclipped, complete, and with only one or two tiny closed tears to jacket corners.
A very sharp set of Burroughs’ time-travelling and -bending trilogy of mythography, sprawling Ancient Egypt to 1999, which he began writing whilst in London. The writing forms a new version of the cut-up technique Burroughs became synonymous with—where earlier volumes adopted a zany, incidental feeling, this cut-up style feels measured and controlled.
BURROUGHS, William S. The Red Night Trilogy, comprising Cities of the Red Night, The Place of Dead Roads, and The Western Lands. London: John Calder and Picador. 1981-1987. 8vos. First British editions, first printings, the first published by Calder, the final novel by Picador. Publisher’s original cloth lettered in gilt, in the dust jackets. The set about fine, the boards clean and bright, the contents fine but with some offset toning to prelims of the second volume from a loosely inserted clipping. The dust jackets unclipped, complete, and with only one or two tiny closed tears to jacket corners.
A very sharp set of Burroughs’ time-travelling and -bending trilogy of mythography, sprawling Ancient Egypt to 1999, which he began writing whilst in London. The writing forms a new version of the cut-up technique Burroughs became synonymous with—where earlier volumes adopted a zany, incidental feeling, this cut-up style feels measured and controlled.
