![]() ![]() ![]() Pages slightly darkened, board corners worn. ![]() Discoloration and small stains inside boards and flyleaves, ink name ins front flyleaf. ![]() Small tears at top and bottom edges of spine, wear to edges of boards. It takes sometimes tens of years, sometimes generations, for a people's level of understanding gradually to adapt itself to the changed state of affairs, until it has recovered the same capacity for self-government as it had already possessed at a lower stage of civilization.". Pessimistically, Koestler wrote: "Every jump of technical progress leaves the relative intellectual development of the masses a step behind, and thus causes a fall in the political-maturity thermometer. A novel about the Stalinist purges and show trials, it is an indictment of totalitarianism. The German language original, thought to have been irretrievably lost in 1940, was found in 2015 and published in 2018. Translated from the German by Daphne Hardy before she fled Paris in the Nazi invasion. Corners of boards are square and sharp but show some wear and "Macmillan" at heal of the spine is faded. Binding is medium blue cloth of consistent color with silver title, etc., to spine and author's initials on front board. Text Block is clean, intact, tight, straight and square, without markings of any kind, but with some tanning to top edge. Early printing of First Edition in year of first publication (1941 on both title and copyright pages), but not first printing, as such statement is lacking. The Macmillan Company, New York, NY, USA, 1941. ![]()
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