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1966020070HUTCHINSON DANUBE EDITION. Unclipped DJ in archival cover. . Fine. Hardcover. 1966. HUTCHINSON DANUBE EDITION hardcover
198050911Folio Society 1980. 8vo. First Edition thus with frontispiece and full-page engravings in the text; grey cloth boards blocked in gilt and black black cloth back lettered in gilt purple top purple endpapers a very good clean copy in publisher's board slip-case the case lightly faded at extremities. Folio Society, hardcover
1949LRB574Paris: Club Français du Livre 1949 Titre : Le Zéro et l'infiniAuteur : Koestler ArthurLieu : ParisÉditeur : Club Français du LivreDate : 1949Édition : Édition réservée aux membres du Club Français du Livre tirage limité à 2 850 exemplaires hors commerce. Exemplaire numéroté 1181/2724. Composition en elzévir polyphile tiré sur Alfa mousse de Navarre sur les presses de CalmannLévy. Mention de copyright CalmannLévy 1941.Reliure : Demichagrin brun à coins dos lisse orné de filets à froid et titre doré plats de papier marbré vert.Format : In8 env. 20 x 14 cmLangue : FrançaisÉtat : Bon état. Dos et coiffes légèrement frottés petites marques d'usage aux coins ; intérieur propre papier bien conservé infimes rousseurs en tête de la page de titre.Particularités : Avertissement de l'auteur daté « Paris octobre 1938 - avril 1940 ». Édition réservée aux membres du Club Français du Livre tirage limité à 2 850 exemplaires hors commerce. Exemplaire numéroté 1181/2724. Composition en elzévir polyphile tiré sur Alfa mousse de Navarre sur les presses de CalmannLévy. Mention de copyright CalmannLévy 1941. Hardcover. Good. Club Français du Livre hardcover
194134411New York: The Macmillan Company 1941. First American edition with "set up and printed" on copyright page. 8vo publisher's original black cloth the upper cover with "AK" in silver the spine ruled and lettered in silver supplied in a finely produced facsimile of the first edition dustjacket. viii 267pp. A very near to fine copy the paper just a bit lightly toned but otherwise spotless and sturdy the hinges solid the black cloth bright and fine with fresh silver. KOESTLER'S MASTERPIECE. DARKNESS AT NOON is the tale of Rubashov an Old Bolshevik who is arrested imprisoned and tried for treason against the government that he had helped to create. The novel is set between 1938 and 1940 after the Great Purge and Moscow show trials. Despite being based on real events the novel does not name either Russia or the Soviets and tends to use generic terms to describe people and organizations.<br> In 1998 the Modern Library ranked DARKNESS AT NOON as number eight on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century even though Koestler originally wrote it in German. The Macmillan Company hardcover