AUSTER, Paul. A very fine and extensive collection of his works, including signed and limited editions, together 66 volumes, 12o-4o, generally in very fine condition. Provenance: Carter Burden (the core of the collection purchased from his estate; also see inscription in Mr. Vertigo). Comprising:

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AUSTER, Paul. A very fine and extensive collection of his works, including signed and limited editions, together 66 volumes, 12o-4o, generally in very fine condition. Provenance: Carter Burden (the core of the collection purchased from his estate; also see inscription in Mr. Vertigo). Comprising:

THE NEW YORK TRILOGY:
A complete set of the signed, limited edition of 26 copies of Auster's New York Trilogy, Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press: City of Glass. 1985. LIMITED EDITION, copy "J" of 26 copies signed by Auster. -- Ghosts. 1986. LIMITED EDITION, copy "X" of 26 copies signed by Auster. -- The Locked Room. 1986. LIMITED EDITION, copy "Q" of 26 copies signed by Auster. Together 3 volumes, 8o. Original blue cloth, gilt-lettered on spine; pictorial dust jackets. VERY FINE COPIES.

Another issue. Together 3 volumes, 8o. Original blue cloth; pictorial dust jackets. FIRST TRADE EDITIONS.

City of Glass. Los Angeles, 1985. 8o. Original printed wrappers. UNCORRECTED PAGE PROOF, SIGNED BY AUSTER.

The New York Trilogy. Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, 1994. 8o. Original cloth; dust jacket. FIRST COLLECTED EDITION, SIGNED BY AUSTER.

SIGNED OR LIMITED EDITIONS:
Unearth. Weston, CT: Living Hand Press, 1974. 8o. Original wrappers. LIMITED EDITION, one of 1000 copies of AUSTER'S FIRST BOOK, No. 3 of Living Hand, ed. by Auster and Mitchell Sisskind (other issue of Living Hand are included below).

Wall Writing. Berkeley, Cal.: The Figures, 1976. 8o. Original pictorial wrappers. LIMITED EDITION, copy "Q" of 26 copies signed by Auster. Auster's second book.

AUSTER and Jean-Paul RIOPELLE. Unearth. [Paris:] Maeght, 1980. 4o. Original wrappers. LIMITED EDITION, number 263 of 620 copies. SIGNED BY AUSTER on the title. Expanded edition of Auster's first book (see above).

White Spaces. Rhinebeck, NY: Station Hill, 1980. 4o. Original wrappers. LIMITED EDITION, one of 1000 copies.

Facing the Music. Rhinebeck, NY: Station Hill, 1980. 8o. Original wrappers. LIMITED EDITION, one of 100 copies.

The Art of Hunger. Los Angeles: Sun and Moon Press, 1992. 8o. Original cloth; dust jacket. LIMITED EDITION, number 110 of 300 copies signed by Auster.

Auggie Wren's Christmas Story. New York: William Drenttel, 1992. 4o. Original goatskin; slipcase. LIMITED EDITION, number 42 of 50 copies specially bound and signed by Auster.

Another issue. Original cloth-backed boards. LIMITED EDITION, number 104 of 100 copies in quarter cloth signed by Auster.

Another issue. Original wrappers. LIMITED EDITION, number 324 of 300 copies.
Autobiography of the Eye. Portland, Ore.: The Beaverdam Press, 1993. 8o. Original wrappers. LIMITED EDITION, one of 35 copies signed by Auster.

Why Write?. Providence, RI: Burning Deck, 1996. 8o. Original cloth; dust jacket. LIMITED EDITION, number 29 of 50 copies signed by Auster from an edition of 2500.

OTHER FICTION, POETRY AND FILMS :
The Invention of Solitude. New York: Sun, 1982. 8o. Wrappers. -- BENJAMIN, Paul [Auster pseudonym]. Squeeze Play. New York: Avon, 1982. 8o. Wrappers. First paperback edition. -- Another edition. London: Faber, 1991. SIGNED by Auster as Paul Benjamin. -- Disappearances: Selected Poems. Woodstock, NY: Overlook Press, 1988. 8o. Cloth; dust jacket. -- Moon Palace. New York: Viking, 1989. 8o. Cloth; dust jacket. SIGNED by Auster. -- The Music of Chance. New York: Viking, 1990. 8o. Wrappers. UNREVISED PROOFS. -- Another issue. New York: Viking, 1990. 8o. Cloth; dust jacket. SIGNED by Auster. -- Another edition. London: Faber, 1990. 8o. Cloth; dust jacket. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. -- Ground Work: Selected Poems and Essays. London: Faber, 1990. 8o. Cloth; dust jacket. -- Leviathan. New York: Viking, 1992. 8o. Cloth; dust jacket. INSCRIBED by Auster. -- Mr. Vertigo. New York: Viking, 1994. 8o. Wrappers. ADVANCE UNCORRECTED PROOFS. -- Another issue. 8o. Cloth; dust jacket. FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY AUSTER TO CARTER BURDEN on the title: "For Carter Burden--With thanks at the NY Pub. Library November 14, 1994, Paul Auster." -- Another edition. London: Faber, 1994. 8o. Cloth; dust jacket. -- Smoke & Blue in the Face. Two Films. New York: Hyperion, 1995. 8o. Wrappers. SIGNED by Auster. -- Paul Auster's New York. New York: Holt, 1997. 8o. Cloth. INSCRIBED BY AUSTER. -- Lulu on the Bridge: A Film. New York: Holt, 1998. 8o. Wrappers. UNCORRECTED PROOF. SIGNED by Auster. -- Another issue. 8o. Wrappers. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED by Auster. -- Timbuktu. New York: Holt, 1999. 8o. Wrappers. ADVANCE READER'S COPY, SIGNED. -- Another issue. 8o. Cloth; dust jacket. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED. -- Another edition. London: Faber, 1999. 8o. Cloth; dust jacket. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, SIGNED. All FIRST EDITIONS except where noted.
ESSAYS AND NON FICTION:
The Red Notebook and Other Writings. London: Faber, 1995. 8o. Cloth; dust jacket. -- Hand to Mouth. New York: Holt, 1997. 8o. Wrappers. ADVANCE READER'S COPY. -- Another issue. Cloth; dust jacket. FIRST EDITION.

CONTRIBUTIONS TO PERIODICALS:
Living Hand. Ed. by Auster and Mitchell Sisskind. Nos. 1-2, 4, 6-8. 1973-1976. Together 6 volumes, 2 with Auster Contributions. -- TriQuarterly. No. 35, pt. I and II. 1976. SIGNED BY AUSTER, the first also signed by W.S. Merwin, John Fawkes and others. -- Pequod. No. 11. 1980. -- Granta. No. 63. 1998.

EDITED OR TRANSLATED BY AUSTER:
A Little Anthology of Surrealist Poems. New York: Siamese Banana Press, 1972. 4o. Mimeographed, stapled sheets. Wrappers. -- The Random House Book of Twentieth-Century French Poetry. Ed. Paul Auster. New York: Random House, 1982. Thick 8o. Cloth; dust jacket. -- I Thought My Father was God. Ed. by Auster. New York: Holt, 1991. SIGNED by Auster. -- Translations. New York: Marsilio, 1997. 8o. Wrappers. SIGNED by Auster. -- FRIEDLÄNER, Saul and Mahmoud HUSSEIN. Arabs and Israelis. Trans. Auster and Lydia Davis. New York: Holmes and Meyer, 1975. 8o. Cloth; dust jacket. -- And translations by Auster of works by Stéphame Mallarmé, Jacques Dupin (signed by Auster), Maurice Blanchot, Jean-Paul Sartre, Alain Bouc, Joseph Joubert, Joan Miró; Hantaï exhibition catalogue (7).

[With:]
DRENTTEL, William. Paul Auster: A Comprehensive Bibliographic Checklist of Published Works. New York: William Drenttel, 1994. 8o. Cloth. LIMITED EDITION, number 30 of 100 copies specially bound and signed by Auster from an edition of 500. -- Another issue. Wrappers. LIMITED EDITION, number 123 of 400 copies. SIGNED BY AUSTER beneath his portrait frontispiece. (67)

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