Hardy Daphne (40 results)

Paperback. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

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.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Stated First Modern Library Edition, 1946, 267 pgs., plus ads in back. Bound in blue cloth, gold lettering, light edge wear on spine, a little staining on back board, no d.j. A nice copy.

Soft Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 211 pages. May require extra postage. Size: Trade Paperback. Used.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Used-Acceptable. Bantam Modern Classic Ed: February 1968. 216 pp. Solid binding. Clean text. A great study/work/reading/research copy. Front cover is missing.

PAPER BACK BLACK. Condition: VERY GOOD. good cover and spine. tear to center of top of rear cover. light rubbing to edges of cover. major aged toning to endpapers. pages are very clean. DATE PUBLISHED: 1989 EDITION: 216.

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.

paperback. Condition: Acceptable. Paperback. Cover and spine in good condition for age. Spine is tight. Some pages have red ink underlined passages, and margin markings. Ships from Friends bookstore to benefit Beaverton (Oregon) library.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good+. First Edition Thus. Pictorial wraps with only minor aging and edge wear. Book is square and securely bound with an uncracked and uncreased spine. Book is unread and very close to near fine. ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 216 pages; sold Abe 4.12.23.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover. No DJ. Pages clean and unmarked. Covers show minor shelf wear. Binding is tight, hinges strong. Previous owner's name on front free end paper.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!

Paperback. Condition: Used; Good. **SHIPPED FROM UK** We believe you will be completely satisfied with our quick and reliable service. All orders are dispatched as swiftly as possible! Buy with confidence! Greener Books.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. VG condition book with slipcase. Content is clean and bright throughout. Free from inscriptions or markings, woodcuts by George Buday. Good slipcase with split at top.

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.

HARDBACK BLUE. General wear, worn top and base of spine, good silver lettering to cover and spine, bumped corners DATE PUBLISHED: 1941 EDITION: 267.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 12mo, cloth, dust jacket, 267pp. + ads. Undated but early printing. $1.95 price. ML #74. VG/VG: clean cloth, solid binding, very light soiling to the edges; small 1961 ownership inscription to the front pastedown (and largely unvisible under the jacket flap; some very light pencil to the margins and very light pencil notes to the rect of the rear endpaper; unclipped jacket, bright, lightly rubbed and lightly dust-soiled.

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Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Dust jacket missing. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Slipcase missing. Minor loosening to binding. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. George Buday (illustrator). Second Impression. 267 pp bw wood cuts, black cloth with gilt title to spine, grey cloth with black gilt and blind stamped illustration to front, red top and endpapers. Clean sound book slipcase a little shelf worn.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Buday, George (illustrator). 267pp. Ten wood-cuts including frontis by George Buday for this Folio edition. Deep red endpapers. Adhesive ghost to front pastedown. Grey and black cloth with figure to boards, gilt lettering to spine. No wear to covers or spine. Binding square and sound. Octavo. Maroon slipcase is structurally sound, showing small wear. Translated by Daphne Hardy. Introduction by Vladimir Bukovsky.

Softcover. Condition: Near fine. No. 671. No. 671. 189 p. + 3 p. of publisher's ads. 18 cm. Paperback. Some paper browned. Complete and unabridged first Signet edition.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Paperback.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Another sterling examplar of the The Folio Society production standards, bound with gray cloth over boards, gilt-lettered author name and title to spine, sharply and distinctly. If you know the novel, the illustration to front cover (a political prisoner being deprived of sleep under a naked light-bulb) will strike terror in you. Blocked design featuring black cloth, gilt line drawing outlining the head of the prisoner. Housed in a simple, paper-covered slipcase that has done its job admirably. Translated by Daphne Hardy, and with illustrations by George Buday and Introduction by Vladimir Bukovsky. The Folio Society was founded in 1947 by Charles Ede, Christopher Sandford (of Golden Cockerel Press), and Alan Bott (founder of Pan Books), three presses that shared spaces and philosophies for a time until being incorporated in 1971 and then becoming an employee-owned trust in 2021. The Folio Society began as a membership-based book club but then expanded its range to publish multiple titles in fiction and non-fiction; science fiction and fantasy; biography and autobiography (from the publisher's web-site). Strikingly dramatic wood-cuts by George Buday including at frontis (of Stalin, etc.). H.K. Baldwin-Price's ink-stamped name inside rear flap, fine, simple bookplate inside front flap. [6], 7-267 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. [12], 267, [1] pages. Small tears at top and bottom edges of spine, wear to edges of boards. Pencil erasure residue on fep. Discoloration and small stains inside boards and flyleaves, ink name ins front flyleaf. Pages slightly darkened, board corners worn. Somewhat cocked. Arthur Koestler, CBE (5 September 1905 - 1 March 1983) was a Hungarian-British author and journalist. Koestler was born in Budapest and, apart from his early school years, was educated in Austria. In 1931 Koestler joined the Communist Party of Germany until, disillusioned by Stalinism, he resigned in 1938. In 1940 he published his novel Darkness at Noon, an anti-totalitarian work that gained him international fame. Over the next 43 years, from his residence in Britain, Koestler espoused many political causes, and wrote novels, memoirs, biographies and numerous essays. In 1968 he was awarded the Sonning Prize "for [his] outstanding contribution to European culture" and in 1972 he was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE). In 1976 he was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease and in 1979 with terminal leukemia. In 1983 he and his wife killed themselves at their home in London. Novel based on the victims of the so-called Moscow Trials. Darkness at Noon is a novel by Hungarian-born British novelist Arthur Koestler, first published in 1940. His best known work, it 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 in 1938 during the Stalinist Great Purge and Moscow show trials. Despite being based on real events, the novel does not name either Russia or the USSR, and tends to use generic terms to describe people and organizations: for example the Soviet government is referred to as "the Party" and Nazi Germany is referred to as "the Dictatorship". Joseph Stalin is represented by "Number One", a menacing dictator. The novel expresses the author's disillusionment with the Soviet Union's version of Communism at the outset of World War II. In 1998, the Modern Library ranked Darkness at Noon number eight on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. Koestler wrote Darkness at Noon as the second part of a trilogy: the first volume was The Gladiators (1939), first published in Hungarian. It was a novel about the subversion of the Spartacus revolt. The third novel was Arrival and Departure (1943), about a refugee during World War II. Koestler, who was by then living in London, wrote that novel in English. Darkness at Noon was written in German while Koestler was living in Paris. His companion, the sculptor Daphne Hardy, translated it into English during early 1940 while she was living in Paris with him. For decades the German text was thought to have been lost during the escape of Koestler and Hardy from Paris in May 1940, just before the German occupation of France. However, a copy had been sent to Swiss publisher Emil Oprecht. Rupert Hart-Davis, Koestler's editor at Jonathan Cape had misgivings about the English text but agreed to publish it when a request to Oprecht for his copy went unanswered. At Hart-Davis' prompting, Hardy changed the title from Rubaschow (the main character's name) to Darkness at Noon. In August 2015, Oprecht's copy was identified in a Zurich library by a doctoral candidate of the University of Kassel. Kingsley Martin, reviewing Darkness at Noon, described the novel as "one of the few books written in this epoch which will survive it". The New York Times described Darkness at Noon as " a splendid novel, an effective explanation of the riddle of the Moscow treason trials. . . written with such dramatic power, with such warmth of feeling and with such persuasive simplicity that it is absorbing as melodrama" First U. S. Edition. Presumed first printing.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 273 pages. 7.75x5.00x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. The Macmillan Company, New York, NY, USA, 1941. Early printing of First (1st) Edition in year of first publication (1941 on both title and copyright pages), but not one of the extremely rare first printings, as the words "First Printing" are lacking from the copyright page, per publisher's 1937 stated policy and also McBride, Points of Issue. (The words "Set up and printed" do not indicate a first printing.) Near Fine, in a Very Good mylar-protected Dust Jacket. The Text Block is clean, very lightly tanned, tight, straight and square, without markings of any kind, but with some tanning to top edge. The Binding is full black cloth, color uniform throughout, with author's initials in bright silver to the front board, bright title, etc., to the spine, off-white endpapers unmarked except for a prior owner's bookplate on the front endpaper, and all corners square and sharp. The mylar-protected Dust Jacket is bright, colors uniform throughout, mostly intact, with the original price ($2.00) intact on the front flap, but with chipping at the top front edge and at the head and heel of the spine. See the photos. Photographed with the mylar protector in place. 267 pages. 5 1/2" x 8 1/4". Translated from the German by Daphne Hardy before she fled Paris in the Nazi invasion. The German language original, thought to have been irretrievably lost in 1940, was found in 2015 and published in 2018. A novel about the Stalinist purges and show trials, it is an indictment of totalitarianism. Pessimistically, Koestler wrote: "Every jump of technical progress leaves the relative intellectual development of the masses a step behind, and thus causes a fall in the political-maturity thermometer. It takes sometimes tens of years, sometimes generations, for a people's level of understanding gradually to adapt itself to the changed state of affairs, until it has recovered the same capacity for self-government as it had already possessed at a lower stage of civilization.".

Hardcover. Condition: Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. No Jacket. Duffy, Daniel Mark (illustrator). First Edition Thus. Presumed first edition thus, collector's hardcover in full leather with gilt decoration and edges, with publisher's note laid in. The book has a subtle lean to the binding, mild bumps to the spine ends and cover corners, and a touch of wear to the tail of the text block. Overall, a Very Good+ copy.

Leatherbound. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket as Issued. George Roth (illustrator). Signed Limited Edition; full black leather qw/raised bands; gilt decoations/titles; all edges gilt; silk moire endpapers; signed by Koestler on tipped in publisher's sheet; 238 clean, unmarked pages Size: 8 Vo.

Full-Leather. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. George Roth (illustrator). Collector's Edition. Beautiful copy of a twentieth century classic. Gilt page edges, accents, and titles. Hubbed spine. Sewn-in permanent silk ribbon page marker. Digital image sent upon request. Signed by Author(s).