First Editions
Tenzing Norgay (1914-1986) was the Tibetan mountaineer who led Sir Edmund Hilary to the top of Mount Everest in 1953. The two men became the first people to set foot on the summit of the world's highest peak. After Everest is Norgay's autobiography, as told to Malcom Barnes.
Vikas Publishing, New Delhi, India, 1977 first printing. Dust jacket in protective cover; head of spine torn and missing; bottom of spine chipped; top edges and corners creased and chipped; dark green cloth with yellow lettering on spine; area of fading at head of spine and top front cover; endpapers tanned; autographed signed letter laid in; inscribed on half-title; binding good; text clean. G+/G-
“A marvelous and disturbing book . . . an experience both painful and joyous.”―Times Literary Supplement
The secure world of a well-established and apparently perfectly assimilated Jewish writer living in an Austrian town before World War II, disintegrates under the force of political and social realities that daily sanctify the old and endemic Austrian anti-Semitism. We learn what we learn through Bruno, the thirteen-year-old son of the family, whose spare and uninflected account discloses the slow onset of disaster. His father, a successful Austrian intellectual, refuses the implications of what’s happening and embraces the humiliating routines of Jewish self-hatred. To the vicious attacks on his writing and character, he adds his own voice until, with nothing left―not faith, not family, not dignity―he disappears. Thirty years later, the war long over, Bruno, at a low point in a childless marriage, responds to ambiguously positive inquiries about his father’s work, and travels from his home in Jerusalem to the Austrian town of his childhood. What he encounters in that town, “now clean of Jews,” means something more than confronting his own profound losses.
1st English edition; translated by Dalya Bilu. Signed by author in Hebrew. Embossed on endpaper "From the Library of David S. Ariel." Dust jacket in protective mylar cover. VG/VG
Philadelphia: Dorrance & Company, 1970. 1st edition, inscribed by the author on ffep; dust jacket in protective cover; head of spine has 1/2" tear; rear cover has 2" tear at bottom; evidence of repairs made with scotch tape; brown cloth with black lettering on spine; binding good; text clean and bright. VG/G-
Robert M. McBride, 1941. 1st edition; inscribed on frontis photo. Dust jacket in protective cover; top of dj torn and missing, chips, tears, creases; red cloth with dark blue lettering on cover and spine; corners bumped; illustrated endpapers; binding good; text clean. G/G-
Horizon Press, 1981. 1st edition of author's first book; dust jacket protected; bottom edge of front cover creased and worn; binding tight; text clean. VG/G
Arkham House, 1957. 1st edition; dust jacket protected; not price clipped; black cloth; endpapers toned; binding good; text clean. G/G
Leigh Brackett (1915-1978) was an American writer, particularly of science fiction; she has been referred to as the "Queen of Space Opera." She was also a screenwriter and a writer of crime fiction. An Eye for an Eye has been called a novel of nightmare revenge, and it was adapted for television as Suspicion series episode in 1958.
1st edition; published for the Crime Club by Doubleday & Company; "A Crime Club selection." Dust jacket in protective mylar cover; 1/2" tear at head of spine and top of front cover; price clipped; black boards with red decoration and lettering on spine; binding tight; text clean and bright. VG/G+
1st edition, 2nd printing, October 1956. Dust jacket protected; head of spine chipped with loss; bottom front cover creased; blue cloth; binding tight; text clean. G+/G
Texas Christian University Press, 1979. 5 volumes: Volume I - The Christmas Stories; Volume II - Editors and Writers; Volume III - Tourists and Colonials; Volume IV - Courtship and Marriage; Volume V - Various Stories. Dust jackets in protective covers; volume IV spine slightly faded; black cloth spines over brown cloth; bindings tight; text clean. VG/VG
Shingletown, CA: Mark V. Ziesing, 1989. Signed limited edition, no. 373/500. Tan cloth slipcase; dust jacket protected; brown cloth; binding good; text clean. VG/VG