Search Results: darkness noon by koestler

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1939-1943. First American editions of each work in Koestler's acclaimed trilogy, including his masterpiece, Darkness at Noon. Octavo, original cloth. Darkness at Noon is signed by Arthur Koestler on the front free endpaper. Each volume is very good in a very good dust jackets with some rubbing and wear. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box made by the Harcourt Bindery. First printings are rare signed.

London: Jonathan Cape, , 1940. We brought you truth, and in our mouth it sounded a lie. We brought you freedom, and it looks in our hands like a whip The true first edition, first impression, of the author's most famous work, presented here in a fine binding by the Chelsea Bindery. Following his resignation from the Communist Party of Germany in 1938, Koestler took his "understanding of the psychology of revolution and the propaganda machine" (Connolly) to write this celebrated political and philosophical novel on the dangers of Stalinism and revolutionary ideology. Though a translation, this was the first publication of the work, owing to the fact that the original manuscript, composed in German, was lost until its rediscovery in 2015. As a result, Koestler translated this English edition back into the German language in 1944. The work was ranked eighth in the Modern Library's 100 Best Novels list of 1998. Octavo. Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in tan morocco, spine lettered in gilt, raised… Read More

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1941. First edition of the author's masterpiece, with the statement of First printing on the copyright page. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in the rare original dust jacket, which is in near fine condition. Jacket design by Garlick. An exceptional example, easily the nicest we have seen. "Darkness At Noon transcends ordinary limitations. Written with such dramatic power, with such warmth of feeling, and with such persuasive simplicity that it is as absorbing as melodrama" (The New York Times Book Review). "One of the few books written in this epoch which will survive it" (New Statesman). Listed by Modern Library as one of the 100 Great Novels of the twentieth century.

Cape, 1940. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good/Poor. The boards are a bit marked and worn. Internally mostly clean and tightly bound - if slightly cocked and sprung. One signature, minor offsetting and a few spots. The jacket is from a later edition. It is a bit chipped and marked.. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Jonathan Cape, London., 1940. First edition. Translated by Daphne Hardy. Octavo. 254 pages.Blind ownership stamp on front free endpaper. Covers marked. Spine scuffed and rubbed at head. Good copy in a poor late issue dustwrapper with reviews on it, including one by George Orwell, marked, rubbed and heavily chipped at top edge. Rare.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1941. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. The correct first edition with "First Printing" on copyright page. Near fine book in a near fine dust jacket , bright and crisp with a faint crease at edge of spine panel. Connolly 100.

Franklin Center: Franklin Library.. Near Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1979. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. First SIGNED limited edition. Near fine in black leather binding with gilt titles and edges, without dust jacket as issued. (Trace of foxing at gilt top edge. ) ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 238 pages .

First Edition of this seminal novel on the authoritarian state. .. Blue cloth over boards with silver lettering on the front (AK) and on the spine. Some fraying at top cover corners and top and bottom of spine; and same age discoloration on the inside covers. Otherwise, no apparent fault; no tears or blemishes.

New York: Macmillan, 1941. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First printing. Translated by Daphne Hardy. Considerable wear to the extremities. The spine is slightly slanted. The endpapers are foxed. Otherwise fine in a sound binding with hinges intact. The dust jacket is chipped along the top and bottom edges. Scuffed along the folds. The price, $2.00, is present on the front flap. In Brodart archival dust jacket protector..

Scribner, 1941-06-01. Hardcover. Very Good. 1941 Macmillian hard cover - 1st edition - date of 1941 on both title page and copyright page - no printing stated - some wear to edge of dust jacket (now in mylar cover) tanning and minor staining to page edge - owner's name inside front cover in pencil - otherwise cover fine binding strong contents clean - enjoy

New York: Macmillan, 1941.. 8vo. 267 pp., Black Cloth, Very Good with staining to end papers, a few pages & boards corner-bumped. First American Edition.

Franklin Ctr, PA: Franklin Library. F. 1979. Limited Edition. Hardcover; First Printing. Leatherbound signed by the author on a tipped in page. ; Signed by Author .

Folio 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.

London: Folio Society, 1980. 1st, This Ed. . Hardcover. Fine/Slipcase Very Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Buday, George. 267pp.; HB blk.&gray w/gilt-pic.cover-red trim; bookplate,otherwise fine condition w/clean,tight pgs. Slipcase burgundy; slight rub w/dampstain,bttm. "The characters in this book are fictitious. The historical circumstances which determined their actions are real. The life of the man N.S. Rubashov is a synthesis of the lives of a number of men who were victims of the so-called Moscow Trials." illus.

London: The Folio Society, 1980. 1st Thus. Hardcover. As New/No Dust Jacket. Octavo. George Buday. 1st printing. An unread book in a fine slipcase, showing leading edge sunning.

The Macmillan Co., 1941. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo. Original blue cloth with silver titles and designs and single date on copyright page. Jacket is a faithful first edition facsimile and like new. A fine, clean and unmarked copy with mild rubbing to edges. Still a very attractive, solid copy.

Random House UK, 1973. First Thus. Hardcover. Used - Like New/Like New. First Edition Thus. Published by Hutchinson, 1973. Octavo. Black cloth boards stamped in silver. Book is like new; Sharp corners and spine straight. Binding tight and pages crisp. Small previous owner name/date on flyleaf. Dust jacket is like new with light shelf wear, price-clipped, and nicks. Book placed in custom acetate protector. This is a very scarce copy of an influential Arthur Koestler title. 276 pages. ISBN: 0091146100. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions or if you would like a photo. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Southampton, New York. We Buy Books! Individual titles, libraries, collections. Message us if you have books to sell!

New York: Random House, [1951]. First Edition. Octavo (21cm.); original simulated cloth in black and gilt dust jacket, red topstain; [12],117pp.; photographic double-page title page, 3 leaves of photographic plates. General edge wear to jacket extremities, including two short closed tears to top edge of upper panel, one touching a letter without loss of meaning, very faint ring stain to upper panel, else Near Fine in Near Very Good jacket.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1941. First U. S. Edition. Presumed first printing. Hardcover. 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… Read More

NY: The MacMillan Co., 1941. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 1941 MacMillan Co. First Edition ( 2nd?) printing with 1941 present on both the title page and copyright page but no First Edition statement. A very clean tight copy in VG condition/no DJ and only some darkening/foxing to the inside boards.