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Published by NY Modern Library (1941)., 1941
Seller: Crabtree's Collection Old Books, Sebago, ME, U.S.A.
G. "He who established a dictatorship and does not kill Brutus.will only reign a short time." Machiavelli, Discorsi Tale of old Bolshevik Nicholas Rurashov, now imprisoned, an aging revolutionary who can no longer condone the excesses of a regime he created. Set during Stalin's purge trials of the 1930s. Gray binding, red title block with gilt lettering, bottom corners bumped. Reprint edition.
Published by Bantam Books, New York, Toronto, ON, Canada, London, et al., 1968
ISBN 10: 0553265954ISBN 13: 9780553265958
Seller: gearbooks, The Bronx, NY, U.S.A.
Book
Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 44th Printing. 216 pp. Solidly bound copy with minimal external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Light foxing on page edges. Slightly creased spine.
Published by Time Reading Program Special Edition/Time Incorporated, New York, 1962
Seller: gearbooks, The Bronx, NY, U.S.A.
Book
Trade Paperback. Condition: Good. Tracy Sugarman (Cover Illustration) (illustrator). Copyright 1962. 216 pp. Solidly bound copy with moderate use and clean text. Front cover ripped at lower spine. Top edge on back cover ripped in places.
Published by Jonathan Cape, London, 1944
Seller: Grandmahawk's Eyrie, Mansfield Center, CT, U.S.A.
Hard Cover. Condition: Good+. No Jacket. 5th Impression HB, light brown, red lettered boards, 254pp. General rubbing to covers, split to lower spine, rounding to corners, inside has PO name to ffep, tanning to page edges, else square & tight. Novel highly critical of the Stalinist regime & communism in Europe. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library.
Published by The Macmillan Comapny, New Yorik, NY, 1941
Seller: Hourglass Books, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. American First. Dust jacket shows considerable wear but is now protected by a mylar cover; otherwise a solid, clean copy with no marking or underlining; a very good reading copy. Book.
Published by Heron
Seller: Goldstone Rare Books, Llandybie, CARMS, United Kingdom
hardcover. Condition: Good. Photograph available on request.
Published by Little, Brown and Company / A Signet Book Published by The New American Library, New York, 1953
Seller: Cat's Curiosities, Pahrump, NV, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Cover art of "The Age of Longing" by James Avati (illustrator). A fictionalized account of Stalin's Soviet show trials, this small, 1960s Modern Library hardcover edition of "Darkness at Noon" bears no dust jacket, and has suffered a few bangs to the fore-edge of the boards -- grade it "good." It does, however, bear to the FFE the bookplate of Parley J. Cooper, now 85, author of more than 24 novels including "Dark Desires," "The Feminists," "My Lady Evil," and "Reverend Mama." Cooper also writes under the pseudonyms Jack Mayfield, Alex Nebrensky, William Freytag, and Dorothy McKinney. 267 pp., followed by 8 pp. publisher's ads. OUR SECOND KOESTLER OFFERING, "The Age of Longing," is Signet Giant 5985, a very-good mass market paperback originally priced 35 cents, first paperback printing January 1953 (the Macmillan hardcover true first of this tale of doomed love between a young American woman and a Communist official in Paris having been 1951.) Pages of "The Age of Longing" moderately and evenly age-browned, some rub to edges of spine, 350 pp. The pair now reduced from $18.
Published by Jonathan Cape. London., 1943
Seller: VJ Books, Alcester, United Kingdom
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. The book and contents are in VGC.254pp. No jacket,a quick name.
Published by The Modern Library/Random House, New York, NY, 1941
Seller: 100POCKETS, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Ex-Lib. Text/VG w/light stain to pg 80, small loss to lower corner of pg 213, and few bent corner tips. Vintage 1941, Modern Library, English translation. Darkness at Noon (original German title: Sonnenfinsternis) is the best known work of Hungarian-born Arthur Koestler (1905 - 1983). In 1972 he was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE). Book 1st published 1940 in German. Koestker, primarily educated in Austria, joined the Communist Party of Germany, then, disillusioned w/Stalinism, resigned in 1938. This volume is the story of Rubashov, a 50 year old Bolshevik, now arrested, imprisoned, and tried for treason against the gov't he helped to create. Protagonist Rubashov is a fictional portrait of Koestle's acquaintances; time wise the narrative is set the short period between 1938 & 1940, during the Stalinist Great Purge & Moscow show trials. Historically faithful in time, the novel names neither Russia nor the Soviets --- instead, it employs generic terms to describe people & organizations: for instance, the Soviet gov't is cited as "the Party", and, Nazi Germany as "the Dictatorship"; Joseph Stalin as "Number One",the menacing dictator. The novel covers the USSR at eve of World War II.
Published by The Macmillan Company, New York, 1941
Seller: gearbooks, The Bronx, NY, U.S.A.
Book
Decorative Canvas Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 267 pp. Solidly bound copy showing moderate signs of use. Worn along edges and corners. Small rips at top and bottom of spine. Clean text; no markings. Foxing around pages. No dj.
Condition: Very Good. 1970. Hardback. One volume from the 'Books That Have Changed Man's Thinking' series. Fine in fine quarter leather bindings, highly decorated gilt titles to spine, and elaborate gilt decoration to front cover. Covers showing very light shelfwear. Decorated end papers. Lightly toned, a little spotting to edges, text and illustrations crisp and clear and remains a fine copy. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.
Published by Heron Books, 1970
Seller: Kennys Bookshop and Art Galleries Ltd., Galway, GY, Ireland
Condition: Very Good. 1970. Hardback. One volume from the 'Books That Have Changed Man's Thinking' series. Fine in fine quarter leather bindings, highly decorated gilt titles to spine, and elaborate gilt decoration to front cover. Covers showing very light shelfwear. Decorated end papers. Lightly toned, a little spotting to edges, text and illustrations crisp and clear and remains a fine copy. . . . .
Published by folio society,uk, 1980
Seller: S.Carter, NEWPORT, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. first folio society edition.fine hardback in a slipcase.stunning wood engravings and lovely production,.
Published by THE FOLIO SOCIETY, 1980
Seller: Bishops Green Books, Newbury, BERKS, United Kingdom
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Black and grey cloth covered hardback book, with gilt titles on the spine. This fabulous book is in first class condition, normal wear, marks and tear apply consistent with use and age. Stamped name on first blank maroon coloured page. The book comes with a nice maroon coloured box, slipcase. It looks like the book has never been used or read. 267 pages all intact, nice tight binding. All pages, text and illustrations are in fabulous order. Set in 10 point Ehrhardt semi-bold leaded 2 points and printed by W & J Mackay Limited, Chatham on smooth cream wove paper. Bound by W & J mackay Limited using Shirting Improva & Scholco Dublina Cloth blocked with a design by Sue Bradbury. Another stunning book from The Folio Society.
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2000. Great Books of the 20th Century series. Very dark blue-gray leather with lettering and decoration in gilt, raised spine bands, all edges gilt, moire silk endleaves, attached ribbon bookmark. Fine condition, looks and feels new and unread with tight binding, clean pages, no names, no bookplates and no other markings. Includes publisher's note leaflet. Hard Cover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Published by The Franklin Library, Franklin Center, PA, 1979
Seller: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA, Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
Signed
Leather bound. Condition: Very Good. George Roth (illustrator). Limited edition. SIGNED. 238pp. Octavo [23 cm] Black leather with raised bands, a gilt stamped title on the backstrip, and elaborate gilt stamped ornamental patterns on the spine and covers. All edges gilt. Moire endpapers. Silk ribbon page-marker. There is a very minor wave to the text block. Illustrated by George Roth. Privately printed and individually signed by the author. Signed by Arthur Koestler on the tipped-in front flyleaf.
Published by Random House / The Modern Library, 1941
Seller: Zebra Books, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. The Modern Library No. 78. A really lovely example of the Modern Library edition published by Random House in 1941. First thus. The boards and page block are remarkably clean with minimal wear. The price-clipped dust jacket has been well preserved in a removable protective sleeve and has only slight wear to the the folds and corners, and a 5mm closed tear in the front fold at the spine-head. Fine/VG+.