The Midnight Bell
Dust jacket featuring wraparound artwork by Babs Webb (the only edition featuring this illustrated dust jacket)
inspiring Andrei Tarkovsky’s film Stalker and countless later works that explore the unknowable and the consequences of contact
Publisher's illustrated boards with lettering to front board and spine
the son of the author’s last governess
Candide eller Optimisten (Norwegian) Agatha Christie The Midnight BellCandide 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,