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). 

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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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