First printing, signed by the author and the star
Spartacus.
New York, published by the author, Box 171, Planetarium Station, December 1951.
8vo (150 x 214 mm). 1 blank leaf, (10), 363, (3) pp., 3 blank leaves. Original brown cloth with title gilt to spine. With the original dust jacket designed by Charles White.
€ 3.500,00
First printing, self-published by the author, who was blacklisted for his Communist sympathies. Signed on the front free endpaper by the author, Howard Fast (1914-2003), as well as by Kirk Douglas (1969-2020), who starred in the lead role in Stanley Kubrick's 1960 epic film dramatization of the novel.
Zustand
Dust jacket a little rubbed with minor chipping along the crease of the front flap, otherwise an immaculate copy.










