The Red Night Trilogy: Cities of the Red Night, The Place of Dead Roads, The Western Lands [Inscribed] [Trilogy Set]

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston / The Viking Press, [1981-1987]. First Edition. Trilogy set, First Printings. Three octavo volumes (23.5cm); variously colored paper and cloth-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt, copper, and black on spines; patterned endpapers; dustjackets; xviii,332; [xii],[2],3-306; [x],258pp. Cities of the Red Night (Volume One) and The Place of Dead Roads (Volume Two) inscribed by author on title page: "For Joanne Kabak William S. Burroughs". The Western Lands (Volume Three) inscribed on title page: "For Ed Kabak all the best for the new year William S. Burroughs 12/14/87". Volume I in Near Fine condition with faint sunning to board margins and trace soil to lower edge of textblock, in a Very Good unclipped dustwrapper with bookshop price sticker to front flap, 2" tear to upper front panel, 0.5" tear to upper rear panel, and tiny tears and creases to extremities. Volume II in Fine condition, in Near Fine unclipped dustwrapper, with trivial surface wear. Volume III in Near Fine condition in Near Fine unclipped dustwrapper with bookshop sticker to front flap and trivial surface wear.

Burrough's final trilogy of novels, inscribed to professor, writer, and editor, Joanne Kabak and her husband, Ed Kabak. "Several SF motifs are drawn together in this complex account of human corruption and corruptibility; alternate histories, nuclear holocaust, time travel, and so on, are employed as metaphors and surrealities. A phantasmagoria crowded with apocalyptic imagery" (Barron, Anatomy of Wonder 4-99). [85339].