Darkness At Noon.

KOESTLER, Arthur.

Item Number: 740

London: Jonathan Cape, 1940.

First English edition of the author’s masterpiece. Octavo, original cloth. Light wear, else near fine in a very good price clipped dust jacket. Signed by Arthur Koestler on the front free endpaper. The English edition is of legendary scarcity in dust jacket and most rare signed.

"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 on Modern Library's 100 Great Novels of the twentieth century.