3 volumes, 8vo. Original cloth-backed boards; dust jackets.

FIRST AMERICAN EDITIONS. TWO SIGNED BY SEBALD on the title-pages (Rings of Saturn and Vertigo). W.G. Sebald’s trilogy of prose works stands among the most influential literary achievements of the late 20th century. Blending memoir, travel narrative, fiction, and archival photography, Sebald’s haunting meditations trace themes of exile, memory, and historical trauma. Vertigo, his first major work published in German in 1990, interweaves journeys with literary figures; The Emigrants presents four deeply affecting portraits of Jewish lives uprooted by the Holocaust; and The Rings of Saturn, set along the Suffolk coast, expands into a sweeping reflection on history and decay.