Cities of the Red Night, William S. Burroughs. Signed First Edition.

Cities of the Red Night, William S. Burroughs First edition, first printing of the first entry in Burroughs' final trilogy of novels, known as The Red Night Trilogy. Signed by Burroughs to the title page. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1981. Publisher's original red cloth spine over grey paper-covered boards, spine lettered in gilt; illustrated endpapers, pp. xviii, 332. A very good copy in a very good, unclipped dust jacket. Binding sturdy, boards slightly bowed and show light shelfwear and rubbing. Jacket shows minor shelfwear at the spine head, a few creases to flaps. A presentable copy, protected in archival mylar.