Product Description
First impression of the true first edition, published during the Second World War in 1943 to war economy standards.
***Near fine in pale yellow cloth-covered boards with red titles to the spine and front board.
The boards are still beautifully bright, clean and unmarked.
No bumps.
Top corner tips very slightly creased, otherwise no creases.
No reading lean to the binding.
Spine tight.
Page block edges clean.
Internally also near fine, with clean pages.
No foxing.
No ink inscriptions - just some light pencil notes to the top of the front free endpaper.
No creases or tears.
***In a near fine printed dustwrapper, which has not been price-clipped, retaining the original publisher's printed price of 7s.
6d.
net.
The dustwrapper is complete, with just very slight rubbing and creasing at the top of the spine and top edge of the front panel near the foldover edge.
Back panel of dustwrapper nice and clean.
***200mm x 132mm.
188 pages.
***'"Arrival and Departure" (1943) is the third novel of Arthur Koestler's trilogy concerning the conflict between morality and expedience (as described in the postscript to the novel's 1966 Danube Edition).
The first volume, "The Gladiators" (1939), is about the subversion of the Spartacus revolt, and the second, "Darkness at Noon" (1940), is the celebrated novel about the Soviet Show Trials.
"Arrival and Departure" was Koestler's first full-length work in English, "The Gladiators" and "Darkness at Noon" having originally been written in German.
' (Wiki) ***'Arthur Koestler's new novel begins with the arrival of a young man in th capital of an unnamed neutral country.
Whence and what is Peter Slavek? During the interlude which he spends in Neutralia he suffers from a nervous breakdown and undergoes a course of treatment in which the whole structure of his past is revealed and the secret motives of his actions are brought to light.
Hero, or neurotic case, or both? That is the question.
The story moves as it were on the geometrical line where the two panes intersect - the rational plane of psychological analysis and the irrational plane of ethical values.
' (Quote taken from the front flap of the dustwrapper).
***First impression of the true first edition, in its original thin boards, complete in its fragile 1943 dustwrapper.
The book was produced "in complete conformity with the authorized economy standards", and is a difficult title to find now in collectable condition in first impression in a complete dustwrapper.
A superior copy, of interest to collectors of Arthur Koestler first edition titles.
Koestler's novel "Arrival and Departure" - set among political refugees in the capital city of a fictional neutral country - was described by George Orwell as "one of the most shocking descriptions of Nazi terrorism that have ever been written".
***We also have a copy of Koestler's 1945 book of essays "The Yogi and the Commissar" in the wartime dustwrapper (see scans).
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