Limited Slipcased Edition of "Cities of the Red Night", in box (1981)
New York City: Holt, Rinehart & Winston (book, limited, primary, slipcased), 1981.
book: 9.25" x 6.25", 1.25", 332 pages, hardcover without dust-jacket as issued, signed and numbered, ISBN 0-03-058998-3.
slipcase: 9.75" x 6.5" x 1.375", cloth-covered.
carton: 6.875" x 12.625" x 1.625", cardboard.
Cities of the Red Night by William S. Burroughs, as published in a limited edition of 500 copies, all of which are signed and numbered by Burroughs and slipcased (without dust-jackets). These were shipped in a cardboard carton from the publisher, Holt, Rinehart & Winston (New York City) with the title and limitation on the cover, in 1981.
This is copy #355, and includes the original shipping carton (with some added tape from a prior collector).
Shoaf I.53. Schottlaender v4.A47.A.Contents:
- "FORE!"
- "INVOCATION"
- "BOOK ONE":
- "The Health Officer"
- "We See Tibet with the Binoculars of the People"
- "The Doctor Is on the Market"
- "The Rescue"
- "Harbor Point"
- "The Private Asshole"
- "Fever Spoor"
- "The Stranger"
- "Shore Leave"
- "Lettre de Marque"
- "Are You in Salt"
- "Horse Hattock to Ride to Ride"
- "Port Roger"
- "Mother Is the Best Bet"
- "Quién Es?"
- "Even the Cockroaches"
- "Firecrackers"
- "Necesita Automóvil"
- "Por Convención Zapata"
- "BOOK TWO":
- "Cities of the Red Night"
- "Get Out of the Defensive Position"
- "We Are the Language"
- "A Cowboy in the Seven-Days-a-Week Fight"
- "The Unconscious Imitated by a Cheesecake"
- "We Are Coordinated. The Guard Is Manifold"
- "Big Picture Calling Shifty"
- "Screen Play/Part One"
- "Cheers Here Are the Nondead"
- "The Sky Is Thin as Paper Here"
- "Étranger qui Passait"
- "Draft Riots"
- "Tamaghis Revisited"
- "Where Naked Troubadours Shoot Snotty Baboons"
- "BOOK THREE":
- "Locker Room"
- "It Is Difficult in Train 'A'"
- "I Can Take the Hut Set Anywhere"
- "Please to Use Studio Postulated to You"
- "A Lecture Is Being Given"
- "Afterbirth of Dream"
- "A Walk to the End of the World"
- "Moves and Checks and Slays"
- "Will Hollywood Ever Learn"
- "Argue Second Time Around Such a Deal"
- "Minutes to Go"
- "We Are Here Because of You"
- "Return to Port Roger"









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