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Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library, 1979. Limited Edition 1st Printing. Leather. As New/No Jacket (as issued). 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Limited. ed., First Thus, First Printing; Hard cover 8vo in gold-tooled black leather w/2-ribbed spine, all edges 24k gilt, moire silk endpapers, ribbon bookmark bound-in. As New and unread; No DJ, as issued. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on tipped-in tissue-guarded front endpaper. 238pp; illustrated by George Roth. Gorgeous.

Franklin Library, 1979-01-01. Leather Bound. Very Good. 0.2000 9.1000 5.9000. Limited edition. SIGNED by author. Original owner's bookplate under signature. Full black leather with vibrant gilt lettering and embellishments. All edges gilt, raised bands on spine, silk bookmark. Light shelf wear may be present due to storage.

Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1979. Book. Illus. by Roth, George. Near Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). Limited Edition. 238 pages, 8vo. SIGNED by the author Arthur Koestler. Includes tissue guard on signature page. Illustrated by George Roth. Limited Edition. Bound in full leather boards with gilt lettering along spine, gilt design on front and rear covers. Full gilt page edges, bound ribbon bookmark, silk moire endpapers and inside covers. Minor shelfwear: light rubbing along edges. Tightly bound, no marks. Volume is in Near Fine-minus condition..

Franklin Center: Franklin Library, 1979. Limited edition. Hardcover. vg. Signed. 4to. 238pp. Original gilt stamped full leather cover with gold lettering on spine. Gilt edges. Orange silk moiré insides with matching bound-in ribbon. Protective tissue over author's signature. Translated from German by Daphne Hardy. Illustrated with six black and blue colored full-page plates by George Roth. Very minor wear on spine. Otherwise in near fine condition. Arthur Koestler was a former Communist. The novel is a reflection on the Stalinist purges of the old Bolshevik guard during the 1930s as told from the perspective of the fictional character N. S. Rubashov. Of particular interest is Koestler's exploration of the psychology of the ex-revolutionary to confess to crimes that one did not commit in order to offer oneself as scapegoat for the revolution.

Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: Franklin Library. 1979. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good+, Leather Bound, Accented in 22kt gold. Printed on archival paper with gilded edges. The endsheets are of moire fabric with a silk ribbon page marker. Smyth sewing and concealed muslin joints. This book is in full leather with hubbed spines. Faint foxing on top text block edge. ; Signed by author on 2nd FEP. ; First Franklin Library Edition. .

New York: Horace Liveright. Very Good+ in Good dj. 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. [very slight bumping/cracking to bottom corners, otherwise a very nice copy with only minimal shelfwear; jacket edgeworn, especially along spine joints, miscellaneous creasing, a few small tears, minor paper loss at spine corners]. INSCRIBED to the noted film star Richard Arlen and his wife ("Dick and Joby Arlen") and SIGNED by the author on the ffep, additionally DATED in his hand Mar. 24, 1931. The author's only book (at least that we know about), a novel derived from his own experiences as a coal miner in England. As explained in the jacket bio, and further confirmed by the inscription, by the time he wrote this book he had relocated to America, where he worked at a string of jobs including "motion-picture reader [and] ghost-writer (scenarios and several novels)," all before the ripe old age of 33. (He doesn't appear to have ever received any screen credits, but this copy… Read More