Night Falls on the City

1st edition, 1st impression (true first – UK publication preceded US publication). 574pp. Golden cloth covered boards (very slightly rounded on corners and spine ends). Small mark on front paste down endpaper else internally neat, clean, bright and tight. In its original, price-clipped dust jacket (a little bumped on edges). An extraordinary and controversial novel about Vienna; it centres on the fate of a classical actress, the Anschluss of 1938 to the Russian invasion of 1945, and her husband, a socialist politician who is also a Jew and subject to the fears of the coming Nazi Terror. Jacket fitted with archival-quality mylar wrapper to protect & prolong its life. It is not adhered to the book or to the jacket.