Publisher's illustrated boards with lettering to front board and spine
inspiring Andrei Tarkovsky’s film Stalker and countless later works that explore the unknowable and the consequences of contact
complete with its original dust jacket
131 and 194)
A timeline by Peter O’Neill is on pages liii–lviii
Candide eller Optimisten (Norwegian) Agatha Christie Publisher's illustrated boards with letteringCandide eller Optimisten, by Voltaire. Bergen: John Griegs Forlag, 1945. Rare Norwegian edition. Smartly, but amateurishly, rebound in half red leather with handmade decorated paper boards, with four raised bands and gilt decorations and title to spine, and original front cover bound within. A very good copy, the binding square and tight, the pages clean and uninscribed, with only light rubbing to the leather exterior, mostly contained to extremities,