PAUL AUSTER'S NEW YORK

New York: Henry Holt and Company, (1997). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine, issued without dustwrapper. A thin hardcover chapbook of about 100 pages in pictorial boards. Preface by Luc Sante and photographs of New York scenes by Frieder Blickle, including two that depict the World Trade Center. The final photograph, a two-page spread depicting the city with the towers in the distance and a bird of prey on a cliff in the foreground, is especially striking. Published in a small quantity distributed solely to the trade and not sold to the public, the book consists of selections from Auster's previously published work that deal with New York City.